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Racing the Great White Way: Black Performance, Eugene O’Neill, and the Transformation of Broadway – by Katie N. Johnson

Racing the Great White Way: Black Performance, Eugene O’Neill, and the Transformation of Broadway by Katie N. Johnson

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 epithets, inserting African American music and dance, or including citations of Black internationalism--theater artists of color have used O’Neill’s texts to raze barriers in American and transatlantic theater.


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Racing the Great White Way: Black Performance, Eugene O’Neill, and the Transformation of Broadway on HardcoverRacing the Great White Way: Black Performance, Eugene O’Neill, and the Transformation of Broadway on PaperbackRacing the Great White Way: Black Performance, Eugene O’Neill, and the Transformation of Broadway on Kindle

Publisher: Univ of Michigan Press

Released: 2023

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