Harlem's Theaters: A Staging Ground for Community, Class, and Contradiction, 1923-1939

by Adrienne Macki Braconi

Honorable Mention, 2016 Errol Hill Book Award for Outstanding Scholarship in African American Theater, Drama and/or Performance

Based on a vast amount of archival research, Adrienne Macki Braconi's illuminating study of three important community-based theaters in Harlem shows how their work was essential to the formation of a public identity for African Americans and the articulation of their goals, laying the groundwork for the emergence...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0810132257
• ISBN13: 9780810132252
• Release Date: October 2015
• Publisher: Northwestern University Press
• Length: 280 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"