12 Facts About Daphne Brooks

Daphne Brooks was born on 1968 and is an American writer and black studies scholar who is William R Kenan, Jr.

Daphne Brooks specializes in African American literary cultural performance studies, especially 19th century and trans-Atlantic culture.

Daphne Brooks is a rock music lover and has attributed her research interests in black performance to being a fan of rock music since a very young age.

Daphne Brooks's parents moved to the San Francisco Bay Area in 1950.

Daphne Brooks received a BA in English from University of California, Berkeley and an MA and a PhD in English from the University of California, Los Angeles.

Daphne Brooks's interest in black performance was developed from her passion for rock music since she was a child.

Daphne Brooks frequently turns to music criticism to find out how a rocker's music was different from others, and how a piece of music was influenced by culture to embody greater issues like cultural heterogeneity, race and gender because of her passion in black rock music and substantial exposure to African American literature by her family.

Daphne Brooks believes that black experience is shaped less by whites but by black radicalism.

Daphne Brooks ascribes black performance to a comprehensive understanding of black cultural production.

Daphne Brooks wrote a narrative, Narrative of the life of Henry Box Brown, on his early life and his extraordinary escape from slavery.

Daphne Brooks was later invited to give stage performances of his escape story in England.

Daphne Brooks describes Brown's performance of his "traveling entrapment" in the box as "a metaphor of physical resistance to the antebellum period's rigorous literal and figurative colonization of black bodies".