LEADER 03097oam 2200505 450 001 9910483442503321 005 20210201142238.0 010 $a3-030-12188-7 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-030-12188-4 035 $a(OCoLC)1235813078 035 $a(MiFhGG)GVRL59UC 035 $a(EXLCZ)994930000000042134 100 $a20190124h20192019 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurun|---uuuua 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Civil Rights Theatre movement in New York, 1939-1966 $estaging freedom /$fJulie Burrell 205 $a1st ed. 2019. 210 1$aNew York, New York :$cSpringer Berlin Heidelberg,$d[2019] 210 4$d?2019 215 $a1 online resource (xv, 236 pages) 225 1 $aPalgrave Studies in Theatre and Performance History 311 $a3-030-12187-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aChapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: The Negro People's Theatre and the Emergence of the Civil Rights Theatre Movement -- Chapter 3: "An American Dilemma": Dramas of the Returning Negro Soldier -- Chapter 4: Rescripting the Negro Problem: The Cold War-Civil Rights Play -- Chapter 5: "To Be a Man": Progressive Masculinities in Lorraine Hansberry's Cold War-Civil Rights Plays -- Chapter 6: Alice Childress's Wedding Band and the Black Feminist Nation -- Epilogue. 330 $aThis book argues that African American theatre in the twentieth century represented a cultural front of the civil rights movement. Highlighting the frequently ignored decades of the 1940s and 1950s, Burrell documents a radical cohort of theatre artists who became critical players in the fight for civil rights both onstage and offstage, between the Popular Front and the Black Arts Movement periods. The Civil Rights Theatre Movementrecovers knowledge of little-known groups like the Negro Playwrights Company and reconsiders Broadway hits including Lorraine Hansberry?s A Raisin in the Sun, showing how theatre artists staged radically innovative performances that protested Jim Crow and U.S. imperialism amidst a repressive Cold War atmosphere. By conceiving of class and gender as intertwining aspects of racism, this book reveals how civil rights theatre artists challenged audiences to reimagine the fundamental character of American democracy. 410 0$aPalgrave studies in theatre and performance history. 606 $aTheater$zNew York (State)$zNew York 606 $aAfrican American theater 606 $aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights 606 $aCivil rights movements$zUnited States 615 0$aTheater 615 0$aAfrican American theater. 615 0$aAfrican Americans$xCivil rights. 615 0$aCivil rights movements 676 $a792.08996073 700 $aBurrell$b Julie$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01080525 801 0$bMiFhGG 801 1$bMiFhGG 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910483442503321 996 $aThe Civil Rights Theatre movement in New York, 1939-1966$93871010 997 $aUNINA