A Sourcebook of African-American performance plays, people, movements (Routledge, 1999)
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction : Performing beyond pre-formations and between movements : thirty years of African-American performance / Annemarie Bean -- Black theatre 1998 : a thirty-year look at Black arts theatre (1998) / Ed Bullins -- Clara's ole man (1968) / Ed Bullins -- Home on the range and Police (1968) / Amiri Baraka (LeRoi Jones) -- The Bronx is next (1968) / Sonia Sanchez -- The Black arts movement (1968) / Larry Neal -- Ritual reformulations : Barbara Ann Teer and the National Black Theatre of Harlem (1998) / Barbara Lewis -- To make Black bodies strange : social critique in concert dance of the Black arts movement (1998) / Thomas DeFrantz -- A road through the wilderness (1998) / John O'Neal -- Dialog : the Free Southern Theater (1965) / Gilbert Moses [and others] -- Motion in the ocean : some political dimensions of the Free Southern Theater (1968) / John O'Neal -- After the Free Southern Theater : a dialog (1987) / Tom Dent and Jerry W. Ward, Jr. --
- John O'Neal, actor and activist : the praxis of storytelling (1992) / Kate Hammer -- Rode a railroad that had no track (1998) / Glenda Dicker/sun -- Theatre in historically Black colleges : a survey of 100 years (1998) / James V. Hatch --Stepping, saluting, cracking, and freaking : the cultural politics of African-American step shows (1991) / Elizabeth C. Fine -- The gospel musical and its place in the Black American theatre (1998) / Warren B. Burdine, Jr. -- Catalysis : an interview with Adrian Piper (1972) / Lucy Lippard -- Four bad sisters (1998) / Eugene Nesmith -- A growth of images (1977) / Adrienne Kennedy -- Obsessing in public : an interview with Robbie McCauley (1993) / Vicki Patraka -- Sally's rape (1994) / Robbie McCauley -- Anna Deavere Smith : acting as incorporation (1993) / Richard Schechner -- The word becomes you : an interview with Anna Deavere Smith (1993) / Carol Martin --
- Doo-a-diddly-dit-dit : an interview with Suzan-Lori Parks and Liz Diamond (1995) / Steven Drukman -- The America play (1994) / Suzan-Lori Parks
The first volume to consider African-American performance between and beyond the Black Arts Movement of the 1960s and the New Black Renaissance of the 1990s