African American & Black

The fourteenth winner of the Yale Drama Series prize explores "Blackness" and the reasons why joy and peace might be harder to get than we think What does it mean to be safe when you're a person of color in the United States? If you were given the...

In 1959, Lorraine Hansberry's A Raisin in the Sun energised the conversation about how Americans live together across lines of race and difference. In Reimagining "A Raisin in the Sun," Rebecca Ann Rugg and Harvey Young bring together four...

It is the eve of Obama's first election. Four of Harvard University's brightest; a surgeon an actress a psychologist and a neuro-psychiatrist are all interested in different aspects of the brain particularly how it responds to race. But like all...

The Billboard is about a fictional Black women's clinic in Chicago's Englewood neighborhood on the South Side and its fight with a local gadfly running for City Council who puts up a provocative billboard: "Abortion is genocide. The most dangerous...

Reclaiming Greek Drama for Diverse Audiences features the work of Native-American, African-American, Asian-American, Latinx, and LGBTQ theatre artists who engage with social justice issues in seven adaptations of Sophocles' Antigone, Euripides' Trojan...

Winner! 2020 Theatre503 International Playwriting AwardAugust 2016. The NFL is being shaken by Colin Kaepernick's monumental decision. Whilst other players join him in taking the knee star running back Luis Moreno is all about his game - and his pay...

'Today, we colored men and women, everywhere - are up against it...In the South, they make it as impossible as they can for us to get educated. In the North, they make a pretence of liberality; they give us the ballot and a good education, and then snuff...

The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance is an outstanding collection of specially written essays that charts the emergence, development, and diversity of African American Theatre and Performance-from the nineteenth-century...

Two generations of sisters navigate class race love and family on "Mud Row " an area in the East End of West Chester Pennsylvania. Elsie hopes to move up in the world by marrying into "the talented tenth " while her sister Frances joins the fight for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780573710018Author Dominique MorisseauFormat PaperbackPage Count 84Imprint Samuel French, Inc.Publisher Samuel French, Inc.Weight(grams) 91g

Every kang deserves a crown Things are heating up in Memphis as the annual Hot Wing Festival rolls into town. With their sights set on the crown, Cordell, his partner Dwayne and friends Isom and Big Charles team up again as the New Wing Order, with a new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781636702230Author James IjamesFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.Publisher Theatre Communications Group Inc.,U.S.

In the plays collected here—Ramp and Mushroom—Pulitzer Prize finalist Eisa Davis mingles modes of myth and speculation, documentary and fiction in two plays about family, desire, restorative justice, ecological sustainability, and immigration amongst the...

From the Marrow Vol. 1 collects five ritual/jazz performance texts by Sharon Bridgforth, including lovve/rituals & rage, no mo blues, dyke/warrior-prayers, blood pudding, and con flama. Rooted in blues and bristling with the voices of ancestors, lovers,...