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Harlem's theaters : a staging ground for community, class, and contradiction, 1923-1939 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Macki Braconi, Adrienne (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Evanston, Illinois : Northwestern University Press, 2015.
Subjects:
Theater > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Theaters > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
African American theater > New York (State) > New York > History > 20th century.
Civil rights movements > United States > History > 20th century.
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Electronic books.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: "Parent to hope"
  • 1923-1928
  • Constructing racial uplift, class, and propaganda
  • Constituting community
  • 1929-1934
  • Staging sacred and secular experiments
  • Per/(re)forming the community
  • 1935-1939
  • Re-visioning the community
  • Playing with history, signs, and fables
  • Epilogue.