A Beautiful Pageant: African American Theatre, Drama, and Performance in the Harlem Renaissance, 1910–1927

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Front Matter....Pages i-xii African American Performance in the Harlem Renaissance....Pages 1-14 Front Matter....Pages 15-16 Men in Black and White: Race and Masculinity in the Heavyweight Title Fight of 1910....Pages 17-54 Exoticism, Dance, and Racial Myths: Modern Dance and the Class Divide in the Choreography of Aida Overton Walker and Ethel Waters....Pages 55-80 “The Pageant Is the Thing”: Black Nationalism and The Star of Ethiopia....Pages 81-94 Front Matter....Pages 95-96 Walter Benjamin and the Lynching Play: Mourning and Allegory in Angelina Weld Grimké’s Rachel....Pages 97-111 Migration, Fragmentation, and Identity: Zora Neale Hurston’s Color Struck and the Geography of the Harlem Renaissance....Pages 113-130 The Wages of Culture: Alain Locke and the Folk Dramas of Georgia Douglas Johnson and Willis Richardson....Pages 131-163 Front Matter....Pages 165-166 “In the Whirlwind and the Storm”: Marcus Garvey and the Performance of Black Nationalism....Pages 167-187 Whose Role Is It, Anyway?: Charles Gilpin and the Harlem Renaissance....Pages 189-205 “What Constitutes a Race Drama and How May We Know It When We Find It?”: The Little Theatre Movement and the Black Public Sphere....Pages 207-238 Shuffle Along and the Quest for Nostalgia: Black Musicals of the 1920s....Pages 239-288 Conclusion: The end of “Butter Side Up”....Pages 289-292 Back Matter....Pages 293-370