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| Author | : Ossie Davis |
| Publisher | : Samuel French, Inc. |
| Total Pages | : 98 |
| Release | : 1961 |
| Genre | : African American clergy |
| ISBN | : 9780573614354 |
A black preacher returns home to rural Georgia to claim an inheritance and bring down the ruthless plantation owner that he once served. He finds a surprise ally in the plantation owner's son.
| Author | : Jonathan Shandell |
| Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
| Total Pages | : 191 |
| Release | : 2025-01-14 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0472904809 |
Starting in 1966, African American activist Stokely Carmichael and other political leaders adopted the phrase "Black Power!" The slogan captured a militant, revolutionary spirit that was already emerging in the work of playwrights, poets, musicians, and visual artists throughout the Black Arts movement of the mid-1960s. But the story of those theater artists and performers whose work helped bring about the Black Arts revolution has not fully been told. Readying the Revolution: African American Theater and Performance from Post-World War II to the Black Arts Movement explores the dynamic era of Black culture between the end of World War II and the start of the Black Arts Movement (1946-1964) by illuminating how artists and innovators such as Jackie Robinson, Lorraine Hansberry, Ossie Davis, Nina Simone, and others helped radicalize Black culture and Black political thought. In doing so, these artists defied white cultural hegemony in the United States, and built the foundation for the revolutionary movement in Black theater that followed in the mid 1960s. Through archival research, close textual reading, and an analysis of performance artifacts, Shandell demonstrates how these artists negotiated a space on the public stage for cultivating radical Black aesthetics and built the foundation for the revolutionary movement in Black theater that followed in the mid-1960s.
| Author | : Saul Levmore |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
| Total Pages | : 353 |
| Release | : 2014 |
| Genre | : Law |
| ISBN | : 0199331375 |
This text examines American norms of masculinity and their role in the law, with essays from legal academics, literary scholars, and judges. Together, these papers reinvigorate the law-and-literature movement by bringing a range of methodological and disciplinary perspectives to bear on the complex interactions of masculinity with both law and literature - ultimately shedding light on all three.
| Author | : William H. Banks, Jr. |
| Publisher | : Crown |
| Total Pages | : 546 |
| Release | : 2010-07-07 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : 0307514072 |
A passionate ode to an American mecca, Beloved Harlem is a literary look into the vibrant African-American haven, edited by one of its celebrated native sons. William H. Banks, Jr., combines the classics with the contemporary as he showcases some of the best essays, short stories, and novel excerpts inspired by the diversity of Harlem life, from the early twentieth century to the new millennium. The days and nights of black Manhattan come alive in the words of historically famous writers like W.E.B. Dubois, Zora Neale Hurston, Langston Hughes, Dorothy West, Ossie Davis, and Toni Morrison, along with the works of brilliant newcomers to the neighborhood, including Brian Keith Jackson’s witty examination of identity politics in The Queen of Harlem and Rosemarie Robatham’s “Dreaming in Harlem,” a moving tale about a woman at the edge of society who finds sanctuary with a stranger. From renaissance through tough times to revitalization, this triumphant homage gives Harlem the historical perspective it so rightly deserves. Beloved Harlem is a welcome addition to the libraries of readers who are either already in love with Harlem or ready to take the fall.
| Author | : Kathryn Ervin |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 145 |
| Release | : 2014-06-03 |
| Genre | : Education |
| ISBN | : 1135693986 |
Kathryn Ervin and Ethel Pitts Walker have compiled a delicately balanced and impeccably coherent anthology of some of the best scenes from the past sixty years of African American theatre. Each scene subtly articulates African American culture in a Western frame and explores universal themes embedded in unique characters, stories, languages, and time periods. Theatrically appropriate for secondary students, African American Scenebook also provides unique opportunities for classroom discussion about the difficult issues relating to race in America.
| Author | : Christopher Sieving |
| Publisher | : Wesleyan University Press |
| Total Pages | : 280 |
| Release | : 2011-05-02 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 0819571334 |
An engrossing look at black-themed films in pre-blaxploitation Hollywood
| Author | : Anthony D. Hill |
| Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
| Total Pages | : 755 |
| Release | : 2018-11-09 |
| Genre | : Performing Arts |
| ISBN | : 1538117290 |
This second edition of Historical Dictionary of African American Theater reflects the rich history and representation of the black aesthetic and the significance of African American theater’s history, fleeting present, and promise to the future. It celebrates nearly 200 years of black theater in the United States and the thousands of black theater artists across the country—identifying representative black theaters, playwrights, plays, actors, directors, and designers and chronicling their contributions to the field from the birth of black theater in 1816 to the present. This second edition of Historical Dictionary of African American Theater, Second Edition contains a chronology, an introduction, appendixes, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has over 700 cross-referenced entries on actors, playwrights, plays, musicals, theatres, -directors, and designers. This book is an excellent resource for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know and more about African American Theater.
| Author | : Julius B. Fleming Jr. |
| Publisher | : NYU Press |
| Total Pages | : 343 |
| Release | : 2022-03-29 |
| Genre | : Art |
| ISBN | : 1479806854 |
2024 College Language Association Book Award Winner 2023 Hooks National Book Award Winner (Benjamin L. Hooks Institute for Social Change) Honorable Mention, Association for the Study of the Arts of the Present 2023 Book Prize Honorable Mention, 2023 John W. Frick Book Award (American Theatre and Drama Society) Finalist, 2022 George Freedley Memorial Award of the Theatre Library Association. A bold rethinking of the Civil Rights Movement through the lens of Black theater “Freedom, Now!” This rallying cry became the most iconic phrase of the Civil Rights Movement, challenging the persistent command that Black people wait—in the holds of slave ships and on auction blocks, in segregated bus stops and schoolyards—for their long-deferred liberation. In Black Patience, Julius B. Fleming Jr. argues that, during the Civil Rights Movement, Black artists and activists used theater to energize this radical refusal to wait. Participating in a vibrant culture of embodied political performance that ranged from marches and sit-ins to jail-ins and speeches, these artists turned to theater to unsettle a violent racial project that Fleming refers to as “Black patience.” Inviting the likes of James Baldwin, Lorraine Hansberry, Alice Childress, Douglas Turner Ward, Duke Ellington, and Oscar Brown Jr. to the stage, Black Patience illuminates how Black artists and activists of the Civil Rights era used theater to expose, critique, and repurpose structures of white supremacy. In this bold rethinking of the Civil Rights Movement, Fleming contends that Black theatrical performance was a vital technology of civil rights activism, and a crucial site of Black artistic and cultural production.
