Autor: Colbert Soyica Diggs Colbert

What would it mean to get over slavery ? Is such a thing possible? Is it even desirable? Should we perceive the psychic hold of slavery as a set of mental manacles that hold us back from imagining a …

Received the 2018 Honorable Mention for the Joe A. Callaway Prize for the Best Book on Drama or Theatre?Black Movements analyzes how artists and activists of recent decades reference earlier freedom …

This is the first book to dedicate scholarly attention to the work of Tarell Alvin Mc Craney, one of the most significant writers and theater-makers of the twenty-first century. Featuring essays, …

A captivating portrait of Lorraine Hansberry’s life, art, and political activism–one of O Magazine’s best books of April 2021"Hits the mark as a fresh and timely portrait of an influential …

How does theatre shape the body and perceptions of it? How do bodies on stage challenge audience assumptions about material evidence and the truth? Theory for Theatre Studies: Bodies responds to …

How does theatre shape the body and perceptions of it? How do bodies on stage challenge audience assumptions about material evidence and the truth? Theory for Theatre Studies: Bodies responds to …

The post-civil rights era of the 1970s offered African Americans an all-too-familiar paradox. Material and symbolic gains contended with setbacks fueled by resentment and reaction. African American …

The contributors to Race and Performance after Repetition explore how theater and performance studies account for the complex relationship between race and time. Pointing out that repetition has been …

Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? …

Because it is my name! Because I cannot have another in my life! Because I lie and sign myself to lies! Because I am not worth the dust on the feet of them that hang! How may I live without my name? …