The Roots of African American Drama

An Anthology of Early Plays, 1858-1938 (African American Life)

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Published April 1990 by Wayne State University Press .
Written in English

Subjects:

• American,
• Plays / Drama,
• Drama

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Edition Notes

Contributions	Leo Hamalian (Editor), James V. Hatch (Editor)
The Physical Object
Format	Hardcover
Number of Pages	454
ID Numbers
Open Library	OL9681511M
ISBN 10	0814321410
ISBN 10	9780814321416

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  February is African American History Month. What began as National Negro History Week in by Carter G. Woodson in hopes of raising awareness of African American’s contributions to civilization, this was later expanded to a full month, African American History Month, in President Gerald R. Ford urged Americans to “seize the. The advent of urban realism. Despite the enormous outpouring of creativity during the s, the vogue of black writing, black art, and black culture waned markedly in the early s as the Great Depression took hold in the United States. African American pundits in the s and ’40s tended to depreciate the achievements of the New Negroes, calling instead for a more politically engaged. A new eight-hour event series based on Roots will be simulcast on the History Channel, Lifetime, and A&E over four consecutive nights beginning Memorial Day, "Early in the spring of , in the village of Juffure, four days upriver from the coast of The Gambia, West Africa, a man-child was born to Omoro and Binta Kinte." So begins Roots, one of the most extraordinary and /5(36).

The term “African American” reflects the two-ness of the black experience in North America, denoting what W.E.B. DuBois aptly described as adouble-consciousness, that is, a sense of being an African and American at the same time, “two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body.”¹ It is a dynamic interface of the old and the new—the past and. The Roots of African American Drama [electronic resource]: An Anthology of Early Plays, / edited by Leo Hamalian and James V. Hatch ; foreword by George C. Wolfe. Publication: Detroit: Wayne State University Press, c Series: African American Life Series African American life series Format/Description: Book 1 online resource.   W hen ABC executives first agreed to broadcast a made-for-television version of journalist Alex Haley’s Pulitzer Prize-winning book, Roots: The Saga of an American Family (), they could not have anticipated the impact the program would have on the American cultural landscape. They hoped that the story– a fictionalized account of Haley’s family history– would find a receptive audience.