Book Reviews of
No Surrender! No Retreat!: African American Pioneer Performers of Twentieth-Century American Theatre
by Glenda E. Gill
and
Waltzing in the Dark: African American Vaudeville and Race Politics in the Swing Era.
by Brenda Dixon Gottschild
in Theatre Journal, 53.3
Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press
October 2001
pp. 522-523
Article excerpt
Palgrave (formerly St. Martin's Press) strengthens its niche in African American theatre with two new books. Glenda E. Gill's No Surrender! No Retreat!: African American Pioneer Performers of Twentieth-Century American Theater and Brenda Dixon Gottschild's Waltzing in the Dark: African American Vaudeville and Race Politics in the Swing Era take up the task of analyzing and historicizing the contributions of African American performers during the last century.