TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mason,Clifford
TI  - Macbeth in Harlem: Black theater in America from the beginning to Raisin in the sun 
SN  - 9781978810006
AV  - PN2270 .M333 2020
PY  - 2020///
CY  - New Brunswick
PB  - Rutgers University Press
KW  - African American theater
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Race in the theater
KW  - African Americans in the performing arts
KW  - African Americans
KW  - Race identity
KW  - Theater and society
KW  - United States
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - Includes bilibiographical references and index; The beginning --; The long night of the 19th century --; New beginnings for a new century-1890-1920 --; The twenties-roaring: a precursor --; The voodoo Macbeth and the famished dawn --; Paul Robeson and the fifties; 2; b
N2  - "Macbeth in Harlem is a journey into the past that makes the present even more relevant than it would seem to be at first glance, simply because it throws up the past as proof that we have not gone very far in eradicating past inequities as we would like to think we have. It discusses the ways in which race has made black theater crawl, clown and debase itself. And in spite of that the black persona, the black mask has not only met the challenge and triumphed over it, it has also, through its enviable gifts, enriched American theater beyond ways that would not have been possible without it. Indeed, the book is a challenge to commercial theater in particular, which is where the money is, to own up to its refusal to make black theater that is not race neutral a part of what it offers to the theater going public"--
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