Category - Performing Arts
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And the Category Is...: Inside New York's Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community
HardcoverOriginal price $25.95Original price $25.95 - Original price $25.95Original price $25.95Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A 2023 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in Nonfiction An Electric Literature "Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of 2022" Selection A love letter to the le...
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Blueprints of Sir Michael
HardcoverOriginal price $22.49 - Original price $22.49Original price $22.49$27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /London, England, welcomes a thirteen-Grammy winner and the "King of Pop." Michael Joseph Jackson chooses the 02 Arena for fifty performances in Jul...
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Blueprints of Sir Michael
PaperbackOriginal price $11.99 - Original price $11.99Original price $11.99$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /London, England, welcomes a thirteen-Grammy winner and the "King of Pop." Michael Joseph Jackson chooses the 02 Arena for fifty performances in Jul...
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Josephine Baker's Cinematic Prism
HardcoverOriginal price $70.00 - Original price $70.00Original price $70.00$89.99$89.99 - $89.99Current price $89.99| /Josephine Baker, the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, was both liberated and delightfully undignified, playfully vacillating be...
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Josephine Baker's Cinematic Prism
PaperbackOriginal price $24.00 - Original price $24.00Original price $24.00$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Josephine Baker, the first Black woman to star in a major motion picture, was both liberated and delightfully undignified, playfully vacillating be...
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Dancing Revelations: Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of African American Culture
PaperbackOriginal price $49.99 - Original price $49.99Original price $49.99$63.99$63.99 - $63.99Current price $63.99| /In the early 1960s, the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater was a small, multi-racial company of dancers that performed the works of its founding ch...
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Real Sister: Stereotypes, Respectability, and Black Women in Reality TV
PaperbackOriginal price $38.95 - Original price $38.95Original price $38.95$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /From The Real Housewives of Atlanta to Flavor of Love, reality shows with predominantly black casts have often been criticized for their negative r...
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Seven Guitars
PaperbackOriginal price $14.00 - Original price $14.00Original price $14.00$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Pulitzer Prize—winning author of Fences and The Piano LessonWinner of the New York Drama Critics Circle Award for Best PlayIt is the spring of 19...
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The Adventures of Amos 'n' Andy: A Social History of an American Phenomenon / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Forty million Americans indulged in a national obsession in 1930: they eagerly tuned in Amos 'n' Andy, the nightly radio comedy in which a pair o...
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Reel to Real: Race, Class and Sex at the Movies / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $26.95 - Original price $26.95Original price $26.95$36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /Movies matter – that is the message of Reel to Real, bell hooks’ classic collection of essays on film. They matter on a personal level, providing...
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Politics and Poetics of Black Film: Nothing But a Man
PaperbackOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Written and directed by two white men and performed by an all-black cast, Nothing But a Man (Michael Roemer, 1964) tells the story of a drifter tur...
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Modern Dance, Negro Dance: Race in Motion
PaperbackOriginal price $26.50 - Original price $26.50Original price $26.50$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /At the New School for Social Research in 1931, the dance critic for the New York Times announced the arrival of modern dance, touting the “seriou...
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Get Out: The Complete Annotated Screenplay
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Jordan Peele’s celebrated screenplay combines horror and dark humor to reveal the terrifying realities of being Black in America "Blending race-s...
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Energy Never Dies: Afro-Optimism and Creativity in Chicago
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95Original price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /From Afro Sheen to Theaster Gates and from Soul Train to Chance the Rapper, Black Chicago draws sustenance from a culture rooted in self-determinat...
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Choreographing the Folk: The Dance Stagings of Zora Neale Hurston
PaperbackOriginal price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /While Zora Neale Hurston and her 1937 novel Their Eyes Were Watching God have become widely celebrated, she was also a prolific stage director an...
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Black Male Frames: African Americans in a Century of Hollywood Cinema, 1903-2003
PaperbackOriginal price $19.95 - Original price $19.95Original price $19.95$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Black Male Frames charts the development and shifting popularity of two stereotypes of black masculinity in popular American film: "the shaman" o...
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Beyond Lift Every Voice and Sing: The Culture of Uplift, Identity, and Politics in Black Musical Theater
PaperbackOriginal price $37.95 - Original price $37.95Original price $37.95$52.99$52.99 - $52.99Current price $52.99| /Paula Marie Seniors’s Beyond Lift Every Voice and Sing is an engaging and well-researched book that explores the realities of African American li...
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And the Category Is.: Inside New York's Vogue, House, and Ballroom Community
PaperbackOriginal price $16.95 - Original price $16.95Original price $16.95$16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /A 2023 Lambda Literary Award Finalist in NonfictionAn Electric Literature “Most Anticipated LGBTQ+ Book of 2022” SelectionA love letter to the le...
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All Kinds of Scary: Diversity in Contemporary Horror
PaperbackOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$66.99$66.99 - $66.99Current price $66.99| /Horror fictions display a wealth of potential, and appeal to a variety of diverse audiences. However, the trope of "the black man always dies firs...
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The Ground on Which I Stand
PaperbackOriginal price $14.00 - Original price $14.00Original price $14.00$14.99$14.99 - $14.99Current price $14.99| /Fierce and passionate, The Ground on Which I Stand is August Wilson’s eloquent and personal call for African American artists to seize the power ...
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