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The American Negro Theatre and the Long Civil RIghts Era /

"Jonathan Shandell provides the first in-depth study of the historic American Negro Theatre (ANT) and its lasting influence on American popular culture. Founded in 1940 in Harlem, the ANT successfully balanced expressions of African American consciousness with efforts to gain white support for...

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Autor principal: Shandell, Jonathan (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Iowa City : University of Iowa Press, [2018]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Foreword / by James V. Hatch with Carlye Eckert
  • Introduction : beyond an integrationist/separatist binary
  • Uptown and downtown with the American Negro Theatre
  • The Black dramas of the American Negro Theatre
  • Anna Lucasta in Harlem and on Broadway
  • Frederick O'Neal's two-front fight for integration in the theatre
  • Black selfhood and interracial communion in the drama of Alice Childress
  • Communal belonging and solitary sainthood in the films of Sidney Poitier
  • Continuations.