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245 10 a| Radical Black theatre in the New Deal /c| Kate Dossett.;

264 1 a| Chapel Hill :b| University of North Carolina Press,c| [2020];

300 a| xv, 338 pages ;c| 25 cm.;

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490 1 a| The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references and index.;

505 0 a| 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.;

520 a| "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"--c| Provided by publisher.;

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Radical Black theatre in the New Deal / Kate Dossett.

Author/creator	Dossett, Kate author.
Format	Book
Publication	Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
Description	xv, 338 pages ; 25 cm.
Subjects	Federal Theatre Project (U.S.)--History. African American theater--History. --20th century.

Series	The John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture. ^A413403
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.
Abstract	"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Genre/form	History.
LCCN	2019053418
ISBN	9781469654416 hardcover
ISBN	1469654415 hardcover
ISBN	9781469654423 paperback
ISBN	1469654423 paperback
ISBN	electronic book

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