Contemporary Black Drama: From A Raisin In The Sun To No Place To Be Somebody

By Various, James Baldwin, Charles Gordone, Douglas Turner Ward, Adrienne Kennedy, Ossie Davis, Clinton F. Oliver, Amiri Baraka, Ed Bullins, Lorraine Hansberry, Stephaniw Sills, Stephanie Sills

This anthology contains Clinton F. Oliver's introductory essay "The Negro and the American Theater" as well as nine plays from the period 1959-1969. The collection also boasts both biographical and...

Black Theater U.S.A.

By Hatch

Stages of Drama: Classical to Contemporary Theater

By Carl H. Klaus, Miriam Gilbert, Bradford S. Field

Blues People: Negro Music In White America

By Amiri Baraka

"The path the slave took to 'citizenship' is what I want to look at. And I make my analogy through the slave citizen's music — through the music that is most closely associated with him: blues and...

Imamu Amiri Baraka: A Collection Of Critical Essays

By Kimberly W. Benston, Amiri Baraka, Benston, Kimberly W., Baraka, Amiri

Introduction / Kimberly W. Benston -- That Boy Leroi / Langston Hughes -- The Development Of Leroi Jones / Lawrence P. Neal -- Black Literature And Leroi Jones / Cecil M. Brown -- Leroi Jones (imam...

Black Drama Anthology

By OyamO, Ben Caldwell, Douglas Turner Ward, Woodie King, Phillip Hayes. Dean, Loften Mitchell, Elaine Jackson, Langston Hughes, Ron Milner, Amiri Baraka, Ed Bullins, William B. Branch, Clifford Mason, Lonne Elder, Errol Hill, Archie Shepp, Joseph A. Walker, Martie Charles, Oliver Pitcher, Donald Greaves, William Wellington Mackey, Ron Zuber, Peter De Anda

Introduction : Evolution Of A People's Theater / Woodie King And Ron Miller -- Junkies Are Full Of (shhh ...) / Imamu Amiri Baraka (leroi Jones) -- Bloodrites / Imamu Amiri Baraka (leroi Jones) --...

Black Short Story Anthology

By Edgar White, James Baldwin, Alice Walker, Nikki Giovanni, John Oliver Killens, John A. Williams, Lerone Bennett Jr, George Davis, Ralph Ellison, James W. Thompson, Woodie King, Juliet E. K. Walker, J. E. Franklin, Ernest J. Gaines, S.E. Anderson, Clarence L. Cooper, Junius Edwards, Langston Hughes, Ron Milner, Amiri Baraka, Ed Bullins, Sam Greenlee, Julia Fields, Louise Meriwether, Woodie King Jr., Jean Wheeler Smith, Paula Hankins, Charles H Jr Fuller, William Melvin Kelly

Each Of The Stories In This Volume Stands By Itself As A Finely Wrought Individual Expression Of One Black Writer's Experience, Talant, And Vision. Introduction : Smoking Sixties / John Oliver Kill...

Crosswinds: An Anthology Of Black Dramatists In The Diaspora

By Edgar White, Abdias Do Nascimento, August Wilson, Mbongeni Ngema, Barney Simon, Richard Wesley, Wole Soyinka, Percy Mtwa, Amiri Baraka, William B. Branch, Derek Walcott, Efua Theodora Morgue Sutherland

H[starred Review] Powerful And Rich, This Outstanding Contribution To Theater Arts Is Recommended For Contemporary Literature And Black Studies Collections. —library Journal Edited By Award-winnin...

Crosswinds: An Anthology Of Black Dramatists In The Diaspora

By Edgar White, Abdias Do Nascimento, August Wilson, Mbongeni Ngema, Barney Simon, Richard Wesley, Wole Soyinka, Percy Mtwa, Amiri Baraka, William B. Branch, Derek Walcott, Efua Theodora Morgue Sutherland

H[starred Review] Powerful And Rich, This Outstanding Contribution To Theater Arts Is Recommended For Contemporary Literature And Black Studies Collections. —library Journal Edited By Award-winnin...

Black Music

By Leroi Jones, Amiri Baraka