Readying the Revolution

Readying the Revolution

African American Theater and Performance from Post-World War II to the Black Arts Movement

Shandell, Jonathan

The University of Michigan Press

01/2025

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9780472077182

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter One - More Than 'Guts Enough': Jackie Robinson's Performances of Integration and Resistance
Chapter Two - Staging Collective Black Resistance, 1948-54
Chapter Three - Before We Knew Beah: The Revolutionary Performance Praxis of Beulah Richardson
Chapter Four - Snatching the Bull Whip: Purlie Victorious as Proto-revolutionary Comedy
Chapter Five - From The Blacks to Les Blancs and Beyond: Variations on Theatrical Outrage
Chapter Six - "...But the Show Hasn't Been Written Yet": "Mississippi Goddam" and Nina Simone's Turn Toward Black Nationalism
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
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Black; African American; theater; drama; play; performance; baseball; music; Civil Rights; Black Nationalism; Black Power; political; Cold War; leftist; Black Popular Front; militant; revolutionary; integrationist; Broadway resistance