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Race and Ethnicity

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Viewers in Distress

Race, Gender, Religion, and Avant-Garde Performance at the Turn of the Twenty-First Century

By Stefka Mihaylova
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Race and Ethnicity

The changing politics of reception, and how rebellious spectators are redefining the avant-garde

Made-Up Asians

Yellowface During the Exclusion Era

By Esther Kim Lee
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, Race and Ethnicity

Why and how Asian characters have been represented by non-Asian actors on stage and screen

Uncle Tom's Cabins

The Transnational History of America's Most Mutable Book

By Tracy C. Davis & Stefka Mihaylova
Subjects: African American Studies, Theater and Performance, Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Race and Ethnicity

Explores the many ways this mid-nineteenth-century U.S. bestseller functions as world literature and enduring icon

Performing the Intercultural City

By Ric Knowles
Subjects: Theater and Performance, Cultural Studies, Race and Ethnicity
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Explores how theater in Toronto, the world’s most multicultural city, vibrantly reflects its diversity and cultural makeup

Haunted City

Three Centuries of Racial Impersonation in Philadelphia

By Christian DuComb
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, Race and Ethnicity
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Traces the deep roots of Philadelphia’s annual Mummers Parade and the city’s history of blackface masking and other forms of racial impersonation

 

Sounding Like a No-No

Queer Sounds and Eccentric Acts in the Post-Soul Era

By Francesca T. Royster
Subjects: Music, African American Studies, American Studies, Theater and Performance, Gender Studies, Race and Ethnicity

Black popular music and offbeat performance, from Eartha Kitt to Meshell Ndegeocello

No Safe Spaces

Re-casting Race, Ethnicity, and Nationality in American Theater

By Angela C. Pao
Subjects: Theater and Performance, American Studies, Race and Ethnicity
Series: Theater: Theory/Text/Performance

Explores fifty years of non-traditional casting practices on the American stage and the questions of cultural identity that they have raised

The Cultural Politics of Slam Poetry

Race, Identity, and the Performance of Popular Verse in America

By Susan Somers-Willett
Subjects: Literary Studies, Poetry and Poetry Criticism, African American Studies, Theater and Performance, American Studies, Race and Ethnicity

How do slam poets and their audiences reflect the politics of difference?

Ed Bullins

Twelve Plays and Selected Writings

By Ed Bullins
Edited by Mike Sell
Subjects: Theater and Performance, African American Studies, Literary Studies, American Literature, American Studies, Race and Ethnicity

Collecting works by one of the most influential playwrights of the Black Arts Movement of the 60s and 70s

Black Cultural Traffic

Crossroads in Global Performance and Popular Culture

Edited by Harry Justin Elam & Kennell Jackson
Subjects: Diaspora Studies, American Studies, Music, Theater and Performance, Race and Ethnicity, African American Studies

Fresh takes on key questions in black performance and black popular culture, by leading artists, academics, and critics

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