The Royalty of Negro Vaudeville: The Whitman Sisters and the Negotiation of Race, Gender, and Class in African American Theater, 1900–1940. By Nadine George-Graves. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000; 183 pp.; illustrations. $45.00 cloth. Performing Blackness: Enactments of African-American Modernism. By Kimberly W. Benston. New York: Routledge, 2000; 386 pp.; illustrated; $85.00 cloth; $27.99 paper. No Surrender! No Retreat! African American Pioneer Performers of Twentieth-Century American Theater. By Glenda E. Gill. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2000; 230 pp.; illustrations. $49.95 cloth.

2002 ◽  
Vol 46 (3) ◽  
pp. 172-175
Author(s):  
Barbara Lewis
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
African American ◽  
American Modernism ◽  
American Theater

Her Standing in Poughkeepsie

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jacqueline A. McLeod
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
African American ◽  
Coming Of Age ◽  
Law School ◽  
Special Relationship ◽  
Wellesley College ◽  
Vassar College ◽  
American Students ◽  
The World

This chapter traces the Bolins' lineage and legacy and Jane Bolin's place in it as a biracial child coming of age in early twentieth-century Poughkeepsie, New York. It examines her relationship with her siblings—Anna, Ivy, and Gaius Jr.—and with her father, who became the family's primary caregiver upon their mother's death. This very special relationship between father and youngest daughter was tested and strengthened as Jane Bolin ventured out into the world beyond Poughkeepsie for college and law school. Jane chose to attend Wellesley College in Massachusetts over Vassar College; she could not have attended Vassar either way since the school's unofficial policies barred the admission of African American students.

African American Theatre

2006 ◽  
Vol 47 (2) ◽  
pp. 191-197
Author(s):  
David Krasner ◽  
Lisa M. Anderson ◽  
Nadine George-Graves ◽  
John Rogers Harris ◽  
Barbara Lewis ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
African American ◽  
New York Times ◽  
American Theatre ◽  
Black Theatre ◽  
Theatre Company

David Krasner: In surveying contemporary London theatre, New York Times critic Ben Brantley reported that the Tricycle Theatre hadinaugurated a season of African-American plays with the commandingly titled but obscure Walk Hard, Talk Loud, a play by Abram Hill from the early1940's. Abram who? The name meant nothing to me, but Abram Hill (1910–1986) was a founder and director of the American Negro Theater in New York (1940–1951) and a playwright, it seems, of considerable verve.3That Abram Hill and the American Negro Theatre—the most important black theatre company during the mid-twentieth century—has flown below the radar is indicative of how much work still needs to be accomplished.

Introduction: Modernism at Night

PMLA ◽  
2009 ◽  
Vol 124 (3) ◽  
pp. 744-748 ◽  
Author(s):  
Heather Love
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
African American ◽  
American Modernism ◽  
The Past ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Global Modernity ◽  
Ways Of Being ◽  
Inside Out

Is Queer modernism simply another name for modernism?As Douglas Mao and Rebecca L. Walkowitz note in their introduction to the 2006 collection Bad Modernisms, “[T]here were numerous ways of being outside in the early twentieth century” (7). Efforts over the past several decades to imagine modernism as an expanded field have been remarkably successful. Female modernism, African American modernism, queer modernism, sentimental modernism, low- and middlebrow modernism, and colonial, postcolonial, and anticolonial modernism have all been integrated into a renewed understanding of modernism (or modernisms, as it is often written). In addition, the rethinking of modernism as a set of aesthetic movements in relation to a larger context of global modernity and modernization has turned the inside out. Since few modernists, on closer inspection, appear to have stayed high or dry, bad modernism, outsider modernism, and marginal modernism begin to look more and more like modernism itself.

The Harlem Renaissance

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Catrina Hill ◽  
Sophie Meridien ◽  
Keith Holt ◽  
Daniel Boyle ◽  
Paul Ardoin
Keyword(s):  
New York ◽  
Twentieth Century ◽  
African American ◽  
African Americans ◽  
Harlem Renaissance ◽  
African American Community ◽  
The World ◽  
Philosophical Questions ◽  
Breaking Work ◽  
The Harlem Renaissance

The Harlem Renaissance was a flourishing of artistic, intellectual, musical, and literary accomplishments by African Americans between the World Wars. The movement took its name from Harlem, a neighborhood on the northern section of Manhattan Island. Harlem became the de facto center of the African American community in New York City, and many of the most important figures of the Renaissance called it home. During the Renaissance, intellectuals published ground-breaking work that explored philosophical questions and political possibilities for African Americans that would be explored throughout the twentieth century.

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