White people do not know how to behave at entertainments designed forladies & gentlemen of colour: William Brown's African & American theater

In August 1821, William Brown, a free man of color and a retired ship's steward, opened a pleasure garden on Manhattan's West Side...

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Beyond Blackface: African Americans and the Creation of AmericanPopular Culture, 1890-1930

This collection of thirteen essays, edited by historian W. Fitzhugh Brundage, brings together original work from sixteen scholars in vario...

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Dancing Many Drums: Excavations in African American Dance

Few will dispute the profound influence that African American music and movement has had in American and world culture. Dancing Many Drums...

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Urban Bush Women: Twenty Years of African American Dance Theater, Community Engagement, and Working It Out

Provocative, moving, powerful, explicit, strong, unapologetic. These are a few words that have been used to describe the groundbreaking Br...

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Africana Women Writers: Performing Diaspora, Staging Healing

Africana Women Writers: Performing Diaspora, Staging Healing focuses on contemporary literary works, plays in particular, written after 19...

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The Roots of African American Drama: An Anthology of Early Plays, 1858-1938

While many historically significant or interesting plays by white playwrights are easily found in anthologies, few by early African Americ...

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The Harlem Renaissance in the American West: The New Negro's Western Experience

The Harlem Renaissance, an exciting period in the social and cultural history of the US, has over the past few decades re-established itse...

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Bricktop's Paris: African American Women in Paris Between the Two World Wars

Tells the fascinating story of African American women who traveled to France to seek freedom of expression. During the Jazz Age, France b...

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Black Diva of the Thirties: The Life of Ruby Elzy

While undergoing routine surgery to remove a benign tumor, Ruby Elzy died. She was only thirty-five. Had she lived, she would have been on...

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Digital Drama: Teaching and Learning Art and Media in Tanzania

The aim of this book is to explore digital media and intercultural interaction at an arts college in Tanzania, through innovative forms of...

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Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina

In this instant New York Times bestseller, Misty Copeland makes history as the only African American soloist dancing with the prestigious ...

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Staging Race: Black Performers in Turn of the Century America

Staging Race casts a spotlight on the generation of black artists who came of age between 1890 and World War I in an era of Jim Crow segr...

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Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina

Michaela DePrince was known as girl Number 27 at the orphanage, where she was abandoned at a young age and tormented as a “devil child” fo...

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Paul Robeson: Film Pioneer

This is the first book-length study of the 12 films starring African American Renaissance man Paul Robeson (1898-1976). Singer, actor, aut...

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Forgeries of Memory and Meaning: Blacks and the Regimes of Race in American Theater and Film before World War II

Cedric J. Robinson offers a new understanding of race in America through his analysis of theater and film of the early twentieth century. ...

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The Strange Career of Porgy and Bess: Race, Culture, and America's Most Famous Opera

Created by George Gershwin and DuBose Heyward and sung by generations of black performers, Porgy and Bess has been both embraced and revil...

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The Drama of South Africa: Plays, Pageants and Publics Since 1910

The Drama of South Africa comprehensively chronicles the development of dramatic writing and performance from 1910, when the country came ...

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Women, Politics and Performances in South African Theatre Today

First published in 1999, 'Women, Politics and Performance in South African Theatre Today' is an important contribution to Performa...

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A Sourcebook on African-American Performance: Plays, People, Movements

A Sourcebook on African-American Performance is the first volume to consider African-American performance between and beyond the Black Art...

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African American Performance and Theater History: A Critical Reader

African American Performance and Theater History is an anthology of critical writings that explores the intersections of race, theater, an...

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