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  • Critical University Studies and Performance

    by Shelby Brewster, Khalid Y. Long, Hannah Schwadron, Danielle Rosvally, Samuel Yates, Charlotte M. Canning, Anita Gonzalez, Cortland Gilliam, Tommy Noonan, Elizabeth Olson, Marisa Williamson, Henry Bial, Bethany Hughes, Michelle Liu Carriger ...
    Critical University Studies and Performance explores how we contend with issues of power, race, class, and gender in higher education, specifically as they relate to the complexities of theater and performance studies programs. In what ways might the fields of theater, performance, and dance studies, as they operate in institutions of higher education, support hegemonic logics as well as model ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • August Wilson in Context

    Edited by Khalid Y. Long, Isaiah Matthew Wooden ...
    Series series Literature in Context
    August Wilson is one of the twentieth century's most important and acclaimed playwrights. This volume demonstrates Wilson's significance to contemporary theatre, culture, and politics by providing fresh and compelling insights into his life, practices, and contributions as an artist and public intellectual. Across four thematically organized sections, contributors situate Wilson's work in his ... Read more

    $26.29 USD

  • Contemporary Black Theatre and Performance

    Acts of Rebellion, Activism, and Solidarity

    by William C. Boles, Anja Hartl ...
    Series series Methuen Drama Agitations: Text, Politics and Performances
    How are Black artists, activists, and pedagogues wielding acts of rebellion, activism, and solidarity to precipitate change? How have contemporary performances impacted Black cultural, social, and political struggles? What are the ways in which these acts and artists engage varied Black identities and explore shared histories?Contemporary Black Theatre and Performance investigates these questions ... Read more

    $23.99 USD

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    Black Women's Studies

    by Brittney C. Cooper ...
    Published in 1982, But Some of Us Are Brave was the first-ever Black women's studies reader and a foundational text of contemporary feminism.Featuring writing from eminent scholars, activists, teachers, and writers, such as the Combahee River Collective and Alice Walker, All the Women Are White, All the Blacks Are Men, But Some of Us Are Bravechallenges the absence of Black feminist thought in ... Read more

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  • Black Women Writers at Work

    Edited by Claudia Tate ...
    “Black women writers and critics are acting on the old adage that one must speak for oneself if one wishes to be heard.” —Claudia Tate, from the introductionLong out-of-print, Black Women Writers At Work is a vital contribution to Black literature in the 20th century. Through candid interviews with Maya Angelou, Toni Cade Bambara, Gwendolyn Brooks. Alexis Deveaux, Nikki Giovanni, Kristin Hunter, ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

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  • American Cultural History

    A Very Short Introduction

    by Eric Avila ...
    Series series Very Short Introductions
    The iconic images of Uncle Sam and Marilyn Monroe, or the "fireside chats" of Franklin D. Roosevelt and the oratory of Martin Luther King, Jr.: these are the words, images, and sounds that populate American cultural history. From the Boston Tea Party to the Dodgers, from the blues to Andy Warhol, dime novels to Disneyland, the history of American culture tells us how previous generations of ... Read more

    $7.99 USD

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  • Black Art

    A Cultural History

    by Richard J. Powell ...
    Series series World of Art
    This groundbreaking study explores the visual representations of Black culture across the globe throughout the twentieth century and into the twenty-first.The African diaspora—a direct result of the transatlantic slave trade and Western colonialism—has generated a wide array of artistic achievements, from blues and reggae to the paintings of the pioneering American artist Henry Ossawa Tanner and ... Read more

    $18.89 USD

  • Black Genius

    Inspirational Portraits of African-American Leaders

    by Dick Russell ...
    Intimate, in-depth portraits, interviews, and essays of America's black leaders-from the founding of the nation and Frederick Douglass to the 2008 presidential race and Barack Obama. Each figure is interconnected with the next, exploring themes of family and intergenerational community, spirituality, and diligence, activism, and struggle. These remarkable portraits reveal the true spirit of the ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • African American Studies

    The Discipline and Its Dimensions

    by Nathaniel Norment, Jr. ...
    Series Book 110 - Black Studies and Critical Thinking
    African American Studies: The Discipline and Its Dimensions is a comprehensive resource book that recounts the development of the discipline of African American Studies and provides a basic reference source for sixteen areas of knowledge of the discipline: anthropology, art, dance, economics, education, film, history, literature, music, philosophy, psychology, religion, sociology, political ... Read more

    $66.79 USD

  • August Wilson

    A Life

    by Patti Hartigan ...
    The “masterful” (The Wall Street Journal), “invaluable” (Los Angeles Times) first authoritative biography of August Wilson, the most important and successful American playwriting of the late 20th century, by a theater critic who knew him.August Wilson wrote a series of ten plays celebrating African American life in the 20th century, one play for each decade. No other American playwright has ... Read more

    $16.99 USD

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  • Whose Blues?

    Facing Up to Race and the Future of the Music

    by Adam Gussow ...
    Mamie Smith’s pathbreaking 1920 recording of “Crazy Blues” set the pop music world on fire, inaugurating a new African American market for “race records.” Not long after, such records also brought black blues performance to an expanding international audience. A century later, the mainstream blues world has transformed into a multicultural and transnational melting pot, taking the music far beyond ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Segregating Sound

    Inventing Folk and Pop Music in the Age of Jim Crow

    by Ronald Radano, Josh Kun, Karl Hagstrom Miller ...
    Series series Refiguring American Music
    In Segregating Sound, Karl Hagstrom Miller argues that the categories that we have inherited to think and talk about southern music bear little relation to the ways that southerners long played and heard music. Focusing on the late nineteenth century and the early twentieth, Miller chronicles how southern music—a fluid complex of sounds and styles in practice—was reduced to a series of distinct ... Read more

    $22.29 USD