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White people do not know how to behave at entertainments designed forladies & gentlemen of colour: William Brown's African & American theater
In August 1821, William Brown, a free man of color and a retired ship's steward, opened a pleasure garden on Manhattan's West Side. It cater…
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Beyond Blackface: African Americans and the Creation of AmericanPopular Culture, 1890-1930
This collection of thirteen essays, edited by historian W. Fitzhugh Brundage, brings together original work from sixteen scholars in various discipl…
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Dancing Many Drums: Excavations in African American Dance
Few will dispute the profound influence that African American music and movement has had in American and world culture. Dancing Many Drums explores …
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Black Diva of the Thirties: The Life of Ruby Elzy
While undergoing routine surgery to remove a benign tumor, Ruby Elzy died. She was only thirty-five. Had she lived, she would have been one of the f…
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Digital Drama: Teaching and Learning Art and Media in Tanzania
The aim of this book is to explore digital media and intercultural interaction at an arts college in Tanzania, through innovative forms of ethnograp…
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Life in Motion: An Unlikely Ballerina
In this instant New York Times bestseller, Misty Copeland makes history as the only African American soloist dancing with the prestigious American B…
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Staging Race: Black Performers in Turn of the Century America
Staging Race casts a spotlight on the generation of black artists who came of age between 1890 and World War I in an era of Jim Crow segregation an…
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Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina
Michaela DePrince was known as girl Number 27 at the orphanage, where she was abandoned at a young age and tormented as a “devil child” for a skin c…
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Paul Robeson: Film Pioneer
This is the first book-length study of the 12 films starring African American Renaissance man Paul Robeson (1898-1976). Singer, actor, author, lawye…
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Forgeries of Memory and Meaning: Blacks and the Regimes of Race in American Theater and Film before World War II
Cedric J. Robinson offers a new understanding of race in America through his analysis of theater and film of the early twentieth century. He argues …
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