- Description
- 1 online resource (xv, 338 pages) : illustrations.
- Summary
- "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 usually reserved for whites, staged black versions of 'white' classics, and developed radical new dramas. In this fresh history of the FTP Negro Units, Kate Dossett examines what she calls the black performance community-a broad network of actors, dramatists, audiences, critics, and community activists-who made and remade black theatre manuscripts for the Negro Units and other theatre companies from New York to Seattle"--
- Series Statement
- The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
- Uniform Title
- Radical black theatre in the New Deal (Online)
- John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
- Alternative Title
- Radical black theatre in the New Deal (Online)
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-329) and index.
- Access (note)
- Access restricted to authorized users.
- 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.
- ISBN
- 9781469654430 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019053418
- OCLC
- ssj0002248701
- Author
Dossett, Kate.
- Title
Radical black theatre in the New Deal [electronic resource] / Kate Dossett.
- Imprint
Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, 2020.
- Series
The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture.
- Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 313-329) and index.
- Access
Access restricted to authorized users.
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