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Author:

Shandell, Jonathan, author.

Title:

The American Negro Theatre and the long civil rights era / by Jonathan Shandell.

Publisher:

University of Iowa Press,

Copyright Date:

2018

Description:

xii, 213 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Subject:

American Negro Theatre.
African American theater--History--20th century.
United States--Race relations--20th century.
Theater and society--United States--History--20th century.
African Americans in the performing arts.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Uptown and downtown with the ANT -- The black dramas of the ANT -- Anna Lucasta in Harlem and on Broadway -- Frederick O'Neal's two-front fight for integration in the theatre -- African American selfhood and interracial communion in the drama of Alice Childress -- Between communal belonging and solitary sainthood: the early films of Sidney Poitier -- Continuations.

Series:

Studies in theatre history and culture

ISBN:

1609385942
9781609385941

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1031048682

LCCN:

2018005482

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

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

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)