John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture
Print version: Dossett, Kate. Radical black theatre in the New Deal. Chapel Hill, North Carolina : University of North Carolina Press, c2020 359 pages John Hope Franklin series in African American history and culture. ISBN 9781469654416
Includes bibliographical references and index
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.