Unmasking The Mask

Download or read book Unmasking written by Signal Hill Road Publishing and published by . This book was released on 2021-10-05 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Halloween to Hollywood, from the Dogon of Africa to the Di Opera of China, masks have played a critical role in tradition, ritual, and meaning-making. In these long months of COVID-19, mask-wearing became a part of everyday dress and the center of critical debate. During 2020, we saw two crises intersect: the pandemic and police racial brutality--in the protests that followed, masks were seen everywhere. The common assumption is that masks hide, yet often, in many cultures, masks reveal the true nature of people. In Signal Hill Road's UNMASKING, we explore the above along with critical questions: what is at the core of the resistance to masks? How did people creatively innovate with face masks in the last year? As we continue in 2021, a unspoken theme of the last year has been "Mask On / Eyes Open."