Macbeth in Harlem : Black theater in America from the beginning to Raisin in the sun /

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Author / Creator:	Mason, Clifford, author.
Imprint:	New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2020] ©2020
Description:	1 online resource (v, 234 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	African American theater -- History -- 20th century. Race in the theater. African Americans in the performing arts. African Americans -- Race identity. Theater and society -- United States -- History -- 20th century. African American theater. African Americans in the performing arts. African Americans -- Race identity. Race in the theater. Race relations. Theater and society. United States -- Race relations -- 20th century. United States. History.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12591670

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ISBN:	9781978810006 1978810008 9781978810020 1978810024 9781978809994 1978809999
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"Macbeth in Harlem is a journey into the past that makes the present even more relevant than it would seem to be at first glance, simply because it throws up the past as proof that we have not gone very far in eradicating past inequities as we would like to think we have. It discusses the ways in which race has made black theater crawl, clown and debase itself. And in spite of that the black persona, the black mask has not only met the challenge and triumphed over it, it has also, through its enviable gifts, enriched American theater beyond ways that would not have been possible without it. Indeed, the book is a challenge to commercial theater in particular, which is where the money is, to own up to its refusal to make black theater that is not race neutral a part of what it offers to the theater going public"--
Other form:	Print version: Mason, Clifford. Macbeth in Harlem. New Brunswick : Rutgers University Press, [2020] 9781978809994

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