Category - Performing Arts
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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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Militant Visions: Black Soldiers, Internationalism, and the Transformation of American Cinema
PaperbackOriginal price $38.95 - Original price $38.95Original price $38.95$51.99$51.99 - $51.99Current price $51.99| /Militant Visions examines how, from the 1940s to the 1970s, the cinematic figure of the black soldier helped change the ways American moviegoers sa...
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Lumumba in the Arts
PaperbackOriginal price $79.00 - Original price $79.00Original price $79.00$99.99$99.99 - $99.99Current price $99.99| /It is no coincidence that a historical figure such as Patrice Emery Lumumba, independent Congo's first prime minister, who was killed in 1961, has ...
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Lena Horne: Goddess Reclaimed
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /From Donald Bogle, the award-winning author of Hollywood Black and leading authority on Black cinema history, this is a first-of-its-kind comprehen...
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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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Footnotes: The Black Artists Who Rewrote the Rules of the Great White Way
HardcoverOriginal price $26.99Original price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /The triumphant story of how an all-Black Broadway cast and crew changed musical theatre—and the world—forever. "This musical introduced Black exc...
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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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Dance Theatre of Harlem: A History, A Movement, A Celebration
HardcoverOriginal price $50.00Original price $50.00 - Original price $50.00Original price $50.00Current price $43.99$43.99 - $43.99Current price $43.99| /2021 NAACP Image Award Nominee This definitive history is a celebration of the first African-American ballet company, from its 1960s origins in a...
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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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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
HardcoverOriginal price $28.00Original price $28.00 - Original price $28.00Original price $28.00Current price $24.99$24.99 - $24.99Current price $24.99| /Notes From Black ReadsTrevor Noah’s Born a Crime is a brilliant and witty memoir that illustrates an unbreakable bond between mother and son. No...
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Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood
PaperbackOriginal price $18.00Original price $18.00 - Original price $18.00Original price $18.00Current price $17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /Notes From Black ReadsTrevor Noah’s Born a Crime is a brilliant and witty memoir that illustrates an unbreakable bond between mother and son. No...
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Black TV: Five Decades of Groundbreaking Television from Soul Train to Black-Ish and Beyond
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /Product DetailsISBN-13: 9780762481514 Media Type: Hardcover Publisher: Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers Publication Date: 12-05-2023 Pages: 288
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Black Privilege: Opportunity Comes to Those Who Create It
PaperbackOriginal price $17.00Original price $17.00 - Original price $17.00Original price $17.00Current price $16.99$16.99 - $16.99Current price $16.99| /An instant New York Times bestseller! Charlamagne Tha God—the self-proclaimed “Prince of Pissing People Off,” cohost of Power 105.1’s The Breakfa...
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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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Black Caesars and Foxy Cleopatras: A History of Blaxploitation Cinema
HardcoverOriginal price $27.00Original price $27.00 - Original price $27.00Original price $27.00Current price $23.99$23.99 - $23.99Current price $23.99| /A definitive account of Blaxploitation cinema--the freewheeling, often shameless, and wildly influential genre--from a distinctive voice in film hi...
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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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American Moor
PaperbackOriginal price $15.95 - Original price $15.95Original price $15.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The intelligent, intuitive, indomitable, large, black, American male actor explores Shakespeare, race, and America ... not necessarily in that orde...
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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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A Raisin in the Sun: The Unfilmed Original Screenplay
PaperbackOriginal price $8.99 - Original price $8.99Original price $8.99$11.99$11.99 - $11.99Current price $11.99| /Under the editorship of the late Robert Nemiroff, with a provocative and thoughtful introduction by preeminent African-American scholar Margaret B....
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25 Plays from the Fire This Time Festival: A Decade of Recognition, Resistance, Resilience, Rebirth, and Black Theater
PaperbackOriginal price $34.95 - Original price $34.95Original price $34.95$39.99$39.99 - $39.99Current price $39.99| /While the past decade proved to be some of the most tumultuous times in modern US history, the Black community has been resilient, opening up dialo...
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Women and New Hollywood: Gender, Creative Labor, and 1970s American Cinema
PaperbackOriginal price $32.95Original price $32.95 - Original price $32.95Original price $32.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /The 1970s has often been hailed as a great moment for American film, as a generation of “New Hollywood” directors like Scorsese, Coppola, and Alt...
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One Public: New York's Public Theater in the Era of Oskar Eustis
HardcoverOriginal price $25.00Original price $25.00 - Original price $25.00Original price $25.00Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /Since its founding by Joseph Papp in the 1950s, The Public Theater has been an American artistic leader defined by its breadth of programming, fr...
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U.S.S. Enterprise Haynes Manual
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /The U.S.S. Enterprise is without doubt the most famous starship in history. The vessels that have carried the name have saved the galaxy countle...
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