Racial Geometries of the Black Atlantic, Asian Pacific and American Theatre

An exciting new work on how black and Asian racial structures were woven together within US theatrical practices in the run up to the Second World War, Steen uses this history to model how we might use performance histories to more carefully assess how ra

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THEATRE, INTIMACY & ENGAGEMENT The Last Human Venue Shannon Steen RACIAL GEOMETRIES OF THE BLACK ATLANTIC, ASIAN PACIFIC AND AMERICAN THEATRE Joanne Tompkins UNSETTLING SPACE Contestations in Contemporary Australian Theatre S. E. Wilmer NATIONAL THEATRES IN A CHANGING EUROPE Forthcoming titles: Adrian Kear THEATRE AND EVENT

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Racial Geometries of the Black Atlantic, Asian Pacific and American Theatre Shannon Steen

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To my parents: Suzanne and Louis Betsy and Jeff

Contents List of Illustrations

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Series Editors’ Preface

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Acknowledgments

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