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george emilio sanchez In the Court of the Conqueror

The personal and the political are interwoven in a piercing artistic commentary on Native identity and institutional racism.

Thursday, April 21, 2022
7:30pm – 9:30pm
Hopkins Center 004 Bentley Theater
Intended Audience(s): Public
Categories: Arts, Performances
Registration required. Fee required. Tickets required.

Part historical, part autobiographical, this solo performance focuses on key landmark cases of Federal Indian Law as well as the artist's own experiences of being raised in an Ecuadorian immigrant household that held cultural biases and prejudice towards indigenous people. The performance revolves around the 200 year-old history of US Supreme Court rulings that have diminished the Tribal Sovereignty of Native Nations in Indian Country.

In the Court of the Conqueror is the second installment of sanchez's performance series, Performing the Constitution. One of the inspirations for embarking on this series is to create narratives that point to, and highlight, the importance and relevance of how the creation of law and its ramifications have a direct link to how communities of color live and exist in this country. sanchez has created an artistic avenue by which to reflect and analyze the breadth and scope of how institutional racism and cultural tenets of racial and gender superiority are embedded in the nation's foundational document.

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For more information, contact:
Hopkins Center for the Arts
hopkins.center.for.the.arts@dartmouth.edu
603-646-2422
Permanent URL to this event: https://president.dartmouth.edu/events/event?event=65189

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