Racing the Great White Way: Black Performance, Eugene O'Neill, and the Transformation of Broadway

by Katie N. Johnson

The early drama of Eugene O'Neill, with its emphasis on racial themes and conflicts, opened up extraordinary opportunities for Black performers to challenge racist structures in modern theater and cinema. By adapting O'Neill's dramatic writing--changing scripts to omit offensive epithets, inserting African American music and dance, or including citations of Black internationalism--theater artists of color have used O'Neill's texts to raze barriers...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 047205578X
• ISBN13: 9780472055784
• Release Date: July 2023
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 9.0"