Performing the roles of shamanistic time-travelers chronicling the hidden history of a nation that seduces its citizenry to embrace forgetting, José Torres-Tama & ArteFuturo Productions’ ensemble of Black and Brown performance poets revisit laws such as the Fugitive Slave Act (1793) to Operation Wetback (1954) to Zero Tolerance Policy (2018).
They expose a U.S. narrative of official legislation strategically written to "dispossess people of color" from their inalienable constitutional rights and criminalize their liberated bodies in the United States of Amnesia, a "freedom-loving" nation still haunted by its white supremacist foundation of a capitalist empire built on Native American genocide and enslavement of Africans.