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Africana Studies
Theatre, Art, and Film
Africana Studies Categories: Africana Studies, Anthropology and Sociology, History and Biographies, Labor and Politics, Language and Culture, Literature and Poetry, Theatre, Art, and Film
Africana Studies Series: African American Life Series
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What Mama Said
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To Change Reels
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Tell It to Women
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Lost Plays of the Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1940Edited by James V. Hatch and Leo Hamalian A valuable contribution to African American literary and theatrical scholarship, this volume is a compilation of sixteen plays written during the Harlem Renaissance, brought together for the first time and set in a historical context. Price: $29.95s (Paper) | |||
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Manipulating the Sacred The first art historical study of Yoruba-descended African Brazilian religious art based on an author's long-term participation in and observation of private and public rituals. |
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What Mama Said An explosive political drama projecting an African people’s revolutionary struggle to confront government forces and foreign oil corporations that have ravaged their land and strangled the voices of their mothers and daughters. |
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To Change Reels An engaging inquiry into the history of South African film and its future—one that focuses on the country’s cultural history while squarely facing questions of race. |
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Tell It to Women Tell It To Women gives traditional rural women a voice: the women from Idu break from their assumed position of silence and powerlessness to confront the urban women who believe their western education gives them the authority to speak for all women. |
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Lost Plays of the Harlem Renaissance, 1920-1940 A valuable contribution to African American literary and theatrical scholarship, this volume is a compilation of sixteen plays written during the Harlem Renaissance, brought together for the first time and set in a historical context. |
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Cinemas of the Black Diaspora The first comprehensive survey of cinema throughout the Diaspora, this book examines the impact on filmmaking of Western culture, capitalist production and distribution methods, and colonialism and the continuing neo-colonial status of the peoples and cou |
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Three Plays An anthology of plays from one of Africa’s leading dramatists. |
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The Roots of African American Drama The Roots of African American Drama features a crucial, yet virtually ignored segment of the African American tradition, from William Wells Brown's abolitionist drama, The Escape—the earliest extant black play written in America—to Willis Rich |
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Energy Details the life, work, and community contributions of Detroit artist Charles McGee. |
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