Sonia Sanchez is a prolific, award-winning poet and one of the most prominent writers in the Black Arts movement. This collection brings her plays together in one volume for the first time. Like her poetry, Sanchez’s plays voice her critique of the racism and sexism that she encountered as a young female writer in the black militant community in the late 1960s and early 1970s, her ongoing concern with the well-being of the black community, and her commitment to social justice. In addition to The Bronx Is Next (1968), Sister Son/ji (1969), Dirty Hearts (1971), Malcolm/Man Don’t Live Here No Mo (1972), and Uh, Uh; But How Do It Free Us? (1974), this collection includes the never-before-published dramas I’m Black When I’m Singing, I’m Blue When I Ain’t (1982) and 2 X 2 (2009), as well as three essays in which Sanchez reflects on her art and activism. Jacqueline Wood’s introduction illuminates Sanchez’s stagecraft in relation to her poetry and advocacy for social change, and the feminist dramatic voice in black revolutionary art.
A Study Guide for Sonia Sanchez's "I'm Black When I'm Singing, I'm Blue When I Ain't", excerpted from Gale's acclaimed Drama for Students.This concise study guide includes plot summary; character analysis; author biography; study questions; ...
... plays: The Bronx Is Next (1968), Sister Son/Ji (1969), Dirty Hearts (1971), Malcolm Man Don't Live Here No Mo (1972), Uh Huh, But How Do It Free Us? (1974), and I'm Black When I'm Singing, I'm Blue When I Ain't (1982). Jacqueline Wood ...
This unique two-volume set provides readers with an understanding of Black Power's important role in the turbulence, social change, and politics of the 1960s and 1970s in America and how the concepts of the movement continue to influence ...
Sistuhs in the Struggle is an essential collection for theater scholars, historians, and students interested in learning how black women’s art and activism both advanced and critiqued the ethos of the Black Arts and Black Power movements.
Vessels's and Easley's riffs about adequate methods for writing Western poetry get at what Tony Bolden defines as “resistance ... The flippant remark made by Grace disavows Vessels's rage, and she remains unaccountable more broadly for ...
This essential volume provides an overview of and introduction to African American writers and literary periods from their beginnings through the 21st century.
... 101, 104, 110 Schomburg Center, 57 Shange, Ntozake, 25 Shiki, Masaoka, 98 Shirane, Haruo, 141 Smethurst, James, 24 Smith, Bessie, 163 Sollors, Werner, 24 Till, ... 49, 71–72, 133 The Zen Experience, 72 Zheng, John, 24 General Index 175.
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The book redefines policing as a sociohistorical process of implementing antiblackness and, in so doing, redefines racism as an act of sexual violence that produces the punishment of race.
Women Dramatists of the Black Arts Movement La Donna Forsgren. Hatch, James V. “From Hansberry to Shange.” In A History of African American ... Hill, Anthony D., and Douglas Q. Barnett. Historical Dictionary of African American Theatre.