This list of resources is not comprehensive. The goal is to create a starting place for members of the UT community who wish to engage with Black and African American theatre and theatre scholarship.
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African American Performance and Theater History: a Critical Reader by 
The American Negro Theatre and the Long Civil RIghts Era by 
The Undiscovered Paul Robeson , an Artist's Journey, 1898-1939 by 
The Undiscovered Paul Robeson: quest for freedom, 1939-1976 by 
Preaching the Blues: Black Feminist Performance in Lynching Plays by 
Performing Blackness: Enactments of African-American Modernism by 
Black theatre ritual performance in the African diaspora by 
Bulldaggers, Pansies, and Chocolate Babies: Performance, Race, and Sexuality in the Harlem Renaissance by 
The Cambridge Companion to African American Theatre by 
Encyclopedia of African American Culture and History by 
The Routledge Companion to African American Theatre and Performance by 
Contemporary Black American Playwrights and Their Plays by 
Early Black American Playwrights and Dramatic Writers by 
Zora Neale Hurston, Eulalie Spence, Marita Bonner, and Others by 
Staging Blackness and Performing Whiteness in Eighteenth-Century German Drama by Below is a sample of theatre journals held by UT Libraries. Where possible, the links direct to online full-text resources.
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Updated regularly. A comprehensive collection of scholarship focused on the lives and events which have shaped African American and African history and culture, coupled with sophisticated technology permitting precise search and browse capabilities. Features over 7,500 articles from Oxford's authoritative reference works, approximately 100 primary sources with specially written commentaries, over 1,000 images, over 100 maps, over 200 charts and tables, timelines to guide researchers through the history of African Americans and over 6,000 biographies.
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Updated regularly. Contains approximately 1200 plays written from the mid-1800s to the present, together with detailed, fielded information on related productions, theaters, production companies, and more. Also includes selected playbills, production photographs and other ephemera related to the plays. The content represents North America, English-speaking Africa, the Caribbean, and other African diaspora countries. Many of the works are rare, hard-to-find, or out of print.
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Updated regularly (until completed). When completed, will provide online access to approximately 270 African American U.S. newspapers. Features papers from more than 35 states. The newspapers were scanned from the collections of the Wisconsin Historical Society, Kansas State Historical Society and the Library of Congress.
Unlimited users.
Updated regularly (until completed). When completed, will provide online access to approximately 270 African American U.S. newspapers. Features papers from more than 35 states. The newspapers were scanned from the collections of the Wisconsin Historical Society, Kansas State Historical Society and the Library of Congress.
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