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Harlem's Theaters : A Staging Ground for Community, Class, and Contradiction, 1923-1939 /

"Based on a vast amount of archival research, Adrienne Macki Braconi's illuminating study of three important community-based theaters in Harlem shows how their work was essential to the formation of a public identity for African Americans and the articulation of their goals, laying the gro...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Macki Braconi, Adrienne (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: "Parent to hope"
  • 1923-1928
  • Constructing racial uplift, class, and propaganda
  • Constituting community
  • 1929-1934
  • Staging sacred and secular experiments
  • Per/(re)forming the community
  • 1935-1939
  • Re-visioning the community
  • Playing with history, signs, and fables
  • Epilogue.