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Beauty In Black Performance

Plays for African-American Youth

ISBN-13: 9781592213801

Contributor(s): Carolyn Nur Wistrand

Subjects: Theatre

Publisher: Africa World Press

Publisher Imprint: Africa World Press

Publication Date: 08-02-2007

Format: Paperback

Availability: In stock

£24.95

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About the book

The four plays contained herein bring together aspects of American history and culture that dramatise the presence and contributions of Africans and African Americans in the shaping of the United States. Written for performance by junior and high school youth, the plays introduce students to the Middle Passage, the Antebellum South, slave revolts in 19th-century America, Reconstruction and the Jim Crow era, lynching, folktales of the Deep South and the Harlem Renaissance.

Beauty In Black Performance

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