Ted Shine

James V. Hatch

This revised and expanded Black Theatre USA broadens its collection to fifty-one outstanding plays, enhancing its status as the most authoritative anthology of African American drama with twenty-two new selections. This collection features plays written between 1935 and 1996.

Plays By African Americans From 1847 To Today

Black Theatre Usa Revised And Expanded Edition, Vol. 2

Brooks McNamara

Annemarie Bean

Chair Department of Performing Arts Brooks McNamara

A sourcebook of contemporary and historical commentary on America's first popular mass entertainment. As the blackface minstrel show evolved from its beginnings in the American Revolution to its peak during the late 1800s, its frenetic dances, low-brow humor, and lively music provided more than mere entertainment. Indeed, these imitations and parodies shaped society's perceptions of African Americans-and of women-as well as made their mark on national identity, policymaking decisions, and other entertainment forms such as vaudeville, burlesque, the revue, and, eventually, film, radio, and television. Gathered here are rare primary materials-including firsthand accounts of minstrel shows, minstrelsy guides, jokes, sketches, and sheet music-and the best of contemporary scholarship on minstrelsy.

Readings in Nineteenth-Century Blackface Minstrelsy

Inside the Minstrel Mask

Errol Hill

A History of African American Theatre

A luscious read for fans of several genres, James Hatch's biography of Owen Dodson is the story of a gifted poet, novelist, educator, and director whose life was a lonely struggle with arthritis, alcohol, racism, and homophobic prejudice.

The Life of Owen Dodson

Sorrow Is the Only Faithful One

James V. Hatch

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