Africana Studies

Theatre, Art, and Film

Ed Bullins: A Literary Biography

Samuel A. Hay

A study of seminal playwright Ed Bullins within the context of African American intellectual history and dramatic theory.

Cinemas of the Black Diapsora: Diversity, Dependence, and Oppositionality

Edited by Michael T. Martin

The first comprehensive survey of post-colonial Black cinemas in Africa and in the diaspora.

Lost Plays of the Harlem Renaissance, 1920–1940

Edited by James V. Hatch and Leo Hamalian

A compilation of sixteen plays written during the Harlem Renaissance, brought together for the first time and set in a historical context.

The United American Healthcare Corporation Collection

Essays by Luisa Washington Chapman  •  Introduction by Jan van der Marck

Catalogue of works by contemporary African American artists in Detroit’s UAHC collection.

Three Plays: The Broken Calabash, Parables for a Season, and The Reign of Wazo

Tess Akaeke Onwueme

An anthology of plays from one of Africa’s leading dramatists.

The Roots of African American Drama

Edited by Leo Hamalian and James V. Hatch

Thirteen historically significant plays by African-American playwrights including William Wells Brown’s abolitionist drama, The Escape—the earliest extant black play written in America, and Willis Richardson’s Chip Woman’s Fortune, the first black play on Broadway.