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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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Autor principal: Dossett, Kate (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo

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505 0 |a 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. 
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