Presenting an innovative approach to performance studies and literary history, Soyica Colbert argues for the centrality of black performance traditions to Afric

Black Movements analyzes how artists and activists of recent decades reference earlier freedom movements in order to imagine and produce a more expansive and in

McAllister offers a history of black theater pioneer William Brown's career and places his productions within the broader context of U.S. social, political, and

The first full-length study of the theatrical jazz aesthetic, that draws on the jazz principles of ensemble--the break, the bridge, and the blue note.

Living with Lynching: African American Lynching Plays, Performance, and Citizenship, 1890–1930 demonstrates that popular lynching plays were mechanisms throug