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Radical black theatre in the New Deal /
"Between 1935 and 1939, the United States government paid out-of-work artists to write, act, and stage theatre as part of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP), a New Deal job relief program. In segregated 'Negro Units' set up under the FTP, African American artists took on theatre work u...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
2020.
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| Series: | John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Leaping for freedom: black theatre manuscripts & black performance communities
- Our actors may become our emancipators: race and realism in Stevedore
- They love to watch us dance: exposing the mask in black living newspapers
- Wrestling with heroes: John Henry and Bigger Thomas from page to stage
- Garveyism, communism, gender trouble: Theodore Ward's Big white fog
- Free at lass!: plays that turn out well for Harlem
- Making space
- Black federal theatre manuscripts.