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In the 1930s, the Work Progress Administration funded a massive Federal Theatre Project in America's major urban centres, presenting hundreds of productions, some of the most popular and memorable of which were produced in the highly controversial and avant garde 'Negro Units'. This experiment in government-supported culture brought to the forefront one of the central problems in American democratic culture - the representation of racial difference. Those in the profession quickly discovered inescapable ideological ...

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Blueprints for a Black Federal Theatre 1996, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521565608

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Blueprints for a Black Federal Theatre 1994, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9780521443593

Hardcover