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Moving Performances: Divas, Iconicity, and Remembering the Modern Stage

By Jeanne Scheper

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Hardcover:

9780813585451 | Rutgers Univ Pr, November 15, 2016, cover price $90.00

Paperback:

9780813585444 | Reprint edition (Rutgers Univ Pr, November 15, 2016), cover price $27.95

Stages of Struggle and Celebration: A Production History of Black Theatre in Texas

Product Description: From plantation performances to minstrel shows of the late nineteenth century, the roots of black theatre in Texas reflect the history of a state where black Texans have continually created powerful cultural emblems that defy the clichÃ©s of horses, cattle, and bravado...read more

By Elvin Holt

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9781477307786 | Univ of Texas Pr, January 15, 2016, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: From plantation performances to minstrel shows of the late nineteenth century, the roots of black theatre in Texas reflect the history of a state where black Texans have continually created powerful cultural emblems that defy the clichÃ©s of horses, cattle, and bravado.

Paperback:

9781477308202 | Univ of Texas Pr, January 15, 2016, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: From plantation performances to minstrel shows of the late nineteenth century, the roots of black theatre in Texas reflect the history of a state where black Texans have continually created powerful cultural emblems that defy the clichÃ©s of horses, cattle, and bravado.

Some of These Days: Black Stars, Jazz Aesthetics, and Modernist Culture

By James Donald

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Hardcover:

9780199354016 | Oxford Univ Pr, May 27, 2015, cover price $35.00

Black Performance Theory: An Anthology of Critical Writing

By Thomas F. Defrantz (editor) and Anita Gonzalez (editor)

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Hardcover:

9780822356073 | Duke Univ Pr, May 9, 2014, cover price $89.95

Paperback:

9780822356165 | Duke Univ Pr, May 9, 2014, cover price $24.95

Breast Ultrasound

Product Description: This book is an ideal manual on the use of modern ultrasound in the diagnosis of breast pathology. It provides a comprehensive overview of current ultrasound techniques and explains the advantages and pitfalls of various ultrasound imaging modalities...read more

By Elena V. Evseeva, Mikhail S. Mogutov, Yury N. Patrunov and Alexander N. Sencha

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9783642365010 | 1 edition (Springer Verlag, June 12, 2013), cover price $139.00 | About this edition: This book is an ideal manual on the use of modern ultrasound in the diagnosis of breast pathology.

Paperback:

9780306804069, titled "Black Magic: A Pictorial History of the African-American in the Performing Arts" | Reprint edition (Da Capo Pr, October 1, 1990), cover price $19.95 | also contains Black Magic: A Pictorial History of the African-American in the Performing Arts | About this edition: Black Magic Langston Hughes's last book, presents the vast, sweeping story of African-American entertainers--the artists and the musicians, the singers and the dancers, the obscure and the illustrious--from the tragic beginnings in slavery to he triumphant artistic achievements of the late 1960s.

The Cambridge Companion to African American Theatre

Product Description: This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of African American theatre, from the early nineteenth century to the present day. Along the way, it chronicles the evolution of African American theatre and its engagement with the wider community, including discussions of slave rebellions on the national stage, African Americans on Broadway, the Harlem Renaissance, African American women dramatists, and the 'New Negro' and 'Black Arts' movements...read more

By Harvey Young (editor)

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9781107017122 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 30, 2012, cover price $94.99 | About this edition: This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of African American theatre, from the early nineteenth century to the present day.

Paperback:

9781107602755 | Cambridge Univ Pr, November 30, 2012, cover price $34.99 | About this edition: This Companion provides a comprehensive overview of African American theatre, from the early nineteenth century to the present day.

The Problem of the Color(blind): Racial Transgressions and the Politics of Black Performance

Product Description: "Catanese's beautifully written and cogently argued book addresses one of the most persistent sociopolitical questions in contemporary culture. She suggests that it is performance and the difference it makes that complicates the terms by which we can even understand 'multicultural' and 'colorblind' concepts...read more

By Brandi Wilkins Catanese

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9780472071265, titled "Problem of the Color(blind): Racial Transgressions and the Politics of Black Performance" | Univ of Michigan Pr, June 7, 2011, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: "Catanese's beautifully written and cogently argued book addresses one of the most persistent sociopolitical questions in contemporary culture.

Paperback:

9780472051267 | Univ of Michigan Pr, June 7, 2011, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: "Catanese's beautifully written and cogently argued book addresses one of the most persistent sociopolitical questions in contemporary culture.

From Bourgeois to Boojie: Black Middle-Class Performances

By E. Patrick Johnson (foreword by), Bridget Harris Tsemo (editor) and Vershawn Ashanti Young (editor)

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Paperback:

9780814334683 | Wayne State Univ Pr, April 15, 2011, cover price $24.95

Hot from Harlem: Twelve African American Entertainers, 1890-1960

By Bill Reed

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Paperback:

9780786444670 | Revised edition (McFarland & Co Inc Pub, December 22, 2009), cover price $39.95

Choreographing the Folk: The Dance Stagings of Zora Neale Hurston

Product Description: 'Choreographing the Folk' argues for the significance of Hurston's choreography, and with perceptiveness, sensitivity, and originality, Kraut illuminates the important and often-contested place of black folk dance in American culture.

By Anthea Kraut

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9780816647118 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, September 18, 2008, cover price $75.00 | About this edition: 'Choreographing the Folk' argues for the significance of Hurston's choreography, and with perceptiveness, sensitivity, and originality, Kraut illuminates the important and often-contested place of black folk dance in American culture.

Paperback:

9780816647125 | Univ of Minnesota Pr, September 11, 2008, cover price $25.00

African American Theater: A Cultural Companion

By Dicker and Glenda Sun

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Hardcover:

9780745634425 | Polity Pr, August 25, 2008, cover price $79.95

African American Theater: A Cultural Companion

By Glenda Dickersun

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9780745634432 | Polity Pr, August 11, 2008, cover price $26.95

Staging Race: Black Performers in Turn of the Century America

Product Description: Staging Race casts a spotlight on the generation of black artists who came of age between 1890 and World War I in an era of Jim Crow segregation and heightened racial tensions. As public entertainment expanded through vaudeville, minstrel shows, and world's fairs, black performers, like the stage duo of Bert Williams and George Walker, used the conventions of blackface to appear in front of, and appeal to, white audiences...read more

By Karen Sotiropoulos

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9780674019409 | Harvard Univ Pr, February 28, 2006, cover price $46.50 | About this edition: Staging Race casts a spotlight on the generation of black artists who came of age between 1890 and World War I in an era of Jim Crow segregation and heightened racial tensions.

Paperback:

9780674027602 | Harvard Univ Pr, March 15, 2008, cover price $26.50 | About this edition: Staging Race casts a spotlight on the generation of black artists who came of age between 1890 and World War I in an era of Jim Crow segregation and heightened racial tensions.

Forgeries of Memory and Meaning: Blacks and the Regimes of Race in American Theater and Film Before World War II

Product Description: Cedric J. Robinson offers a new understanding of race in America through his analysis of theater and film of the early twentieth century. He argues that economic, political, and cultural forces present in the eras of silent film and the early "talkies" firmly entrenched limited representations of African Americans...read more

By Cedric J. Robinson

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9780807831489 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, December 17, 2007, cover price $82.00 | About this edition: Cedric J.

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9780807858417 | Univ of North Carolina Pr, December 17, 2007, cover price $31.95 | About this edition: Cedric J.

Bodies in Dissent: Spectacular Performances of Race And Freedom, 1850-1910

Product Description: In Bodies in Dissent Daphne A. Brooks argues that from the mid-nineteenth century to the early twentieth, black transatlantic activists, actors, singers, and other entertainers frequently transformed the alienating conditions of social and political marginalization into modes of self-actualization through performance...read more

By Daphne A. Brooks

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9780822337102 | Duke Univ Pr, July 30, 2006, cover price $99.95 | About this edition: In Bodies in Dissent Daphne A.

Paperback:

9780822337225 | Duke Univ Pr, July 30, 2006, cover price $27.95 | About this edition: In Bodies in Dissent Daphne A.

Advice to a Young Black Actor (And Others): Conversations With Douglas Turner Ward

By Gus Edwards and Douglas Turner Ward

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9780325006659 | Heinemann Drama, March 1, 2004, cover price $16.23

Performing the Word: African-American Poetry As Vernacular Culture

Product Description: This work explores the poetic manifestations of African American cultural expression. The author examines elements of African American expressive culture and its language practices, both folk and popular. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

By Fahamisha Patricia Brown

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9780813526317 | Rutgers Univ Pr, January 1, 2000, cover price $59.00 | About this edition: This work explores the poetic manifestations of African American cultural expression.

Performing the Word: African Merican Poetry As Vernacular Culture

By Fahamisha Patricia Brown

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9780813526324 | Rutgers Univ Pr, August 1, 1999, cover price $23.95 | About this edition: This work explores the poetic manifestations of African American cultural expression.

Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance: Dance & Other Contexts

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By Brenda Dixon Gottschild

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Hardcover:

9780313296840, titled "Digging the Africanist Presence in American Performance: Dance and Other Contexts" | Praeger Pub Text, May 30, 1996, cover price $127.00

Paperback:

9780275963736 | Praeger Pub Text, June 30, 1998, cover price $35.00

Pages from the Harlem Renaissance: A Chronicle of Performance

By Anthony D. Hill

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Paperback:

9780820428642 | Peter Lang Pub Inc, May 1, 1996, cover price $41.95

Repeal of the Blues

Looks at the history of Black performers from 1932 to the present, describes the careers of prominent entertainers, and tells the stories of those who helped break the color barrier (view table of contents)

By Alan Pomerance

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Hardcover:

9780806511054 | Citadel Pr, December 1, 1988, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Looks at the history of Black performers from 1932 to the present, describes the careers of prominent entertainers, and tells the stories of those who helped break the color barrier

Paperback:

9780806512440 | Reprint edition (Citadel Pr, April 1, 1991), cover price $10.95 | About this edition: Looks at the history of Black performers from 1932 to the present, describes the careers of prominent entertainers, and tells the stories of those who helped break the color barrier

Black Is the Color of My TV Tube

Product Description: A must have for African American History collectors.

By Gil Noble

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9780818402975 | Lyle Stuart, March 1, 1981, cover price $12.00 | About this edition: An Emmy-Award winning Black newsman offers a personal account of the television world, its frustrations, and its challenges, examining in particular the difficulty of balancing his racial allegiance with working in a white-controlled industry

Paperback:

9780818405389 | Reprint edition (Carol Pub Group, January 1, 1991), cover price $9.95 | About this edition: A must have for African American History collectors.

Black Magic: A Pictorial History of the African-American in the Performing Arts

Product Description: Black Magic Langston Hughes's last book, presents the vast, sweeping story of African-American entertainers--the artists and the musicians, the singers and the dancers, the obscure and the illustrious--from the tragic beginnings in slavery to he triumphant artistic achievements of the late 1960s...read more

By Langston Hughes and Milton Meltzer

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9780306804069 | Reprint edition (Da Capo Pr, October 1, 1990), cover price $19.95 | also contains Breast Ultrasound | About this edition: Black Magic Langston Hughes's last book, presents the vast, sweeping story of African-American entertainers--the artists and the musicians, the singers and the dancers, the obscure and the illustrious--from the tragic beginnings in slavery to he triumphant artistic achievements of the late 1960s.

On Stage in America

Product Description: On Stage in America

By T. G. Cooper and Carole Singleton

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9781556050008 | Wyndham Hall Pr, June 1, 1987, cover price $16.00 | About this edition: On Stage in America

America Onstage

By T. Cooper

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9780915833221 | Drama Jazz House, June 1, 1984, cover price $8.95

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