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Author:

Macki Braconi, Adrienne, author.

Title:

Harlem's theaters : a staging ground for community, class, and contradiction, 1923-1939 / Adrienne Macki Braconi.

Publisher:

Northwestern University Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xii, 267 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Theater--New York--New York--History--20th century.
Theaters--New York--New York--History--20th century.
African American theater--New York--New York--History--20th century.
Civil rights movements--United States--History--20th century.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.)--Intellectual life--20th century.
History.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-258) and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

0810132249
9780810132245
0810132257
9780810132252

OCLC:

(OCoLC)908991001

LCCN:

2015031416

Locations:

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)