Racing the Great White Way Black Performance, Eugene O'Neill, and the Transformation of Broadway

Racing the Great White Way Black Performance, Eugene O'Neill, and the Transformation of Broadway

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The early drama of Eugene O'Neill, with its emphasis on racial themes and conflicts, opened up extraordinary opportunities for Black performers to challenge racist structures in modern theater and cinema. By adapting O'Neill's dramatic writing-changing scripts to omit offensive epithe...

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Main Author: Johnson, Katie N. (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: University of Michigan Press 2023
Series:Theater: Theory/Text/Performance
Subjects:
Theatre studies
Ethnic studies
Theatre direction & production
Eugene O'Neill, Paul Robeson, American theater, Harlem Renaissance, Emperor Jones, All God's Chillun Got Wings, African American performance, American film, African American film, Charles Gilpin, Dudley Murphy, Habib Benglia, diasporia, postcolonial performance, breaking color lines, Jules Bledsoe, blackface, Metropolitan Opera, transnational theater
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