Product Description: Generating a new understanding of the past as well as a vision for the future this path-breaking volume contains essays written by playwrights, scholars, and critics that analyze African American theatre as it is practiced today. Even as they acknowledge that Black experience is not monolithic, these contributors argue provocatively and persuasively for a Black consciousness that creates a culturally specific theatre...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: An anthology of ten plays representative of the eclectic nature of the Negro Ensemble Company repertory. The Negro Ensemble Company was formed in New York in 1967 to aid in the establishment of an independent African-American theatre institution.

Profiles more than seventy-five African-American heroes of the twentieth century, including Jackie Robinson, Maya Angelou, Muhammed Ali, Toni Morrison, Arthur Ashe, and Alice Walker

Chronicles thirty years of Black theatre in a collection of photographs featuring pictures of James Earl Jones, Gloria Foster, and others

Product Description: Book by Harrison, Paul Carter

The contemporary black playwright discusses the presence of traditional African thought and spirituality in everyday American life and cites the need for drama that explores the black experience. Bibliogs