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Taking the Cake: Black Vaudeville, Dance Competitions and Value
Sissieretta, Treemonisha, and Hip Hopera: Opera and The Performativity of Race and Class
Identity Politics and Political Will: Jeni LeGon Living in a Great Big Way
'Is This Going To Be Depressing?’: Intercultural Theater, Empathy and Conversations in Pirira
Spreading the Sand: Understanding the Economic and Creative Impetus for the Black Vaudeville Industry
Diasporic Spidering: Constructing Contemporary Black Identities
Inside/Beside Dance Studies: A Conversation: Mellon Dance Studies in/and the Humanities
LaShonda Getting Herself Together: The Body, Trauma and History in Stacey Robinson’s Quiet Frenzy
African American Performance and Community Engagement
Performance is Not Benign
The Safety Dance
‘Just Like Being At The Zoo’: Primitivity and Ragtime Dance
Assessment on the State of African American Theater Studies
Basic Black
Dixwell Stories: Urban Bush Women, Dance and Community Service
Dance and Identity Politics in American Negro Vaudeville: The Whitman Sisters 1900-1935
 
Book Reviews
A History of African American Theatre by Errol Hill and Jim Hatch
The Black Dancing Body: A Geography from Coon to Cool by Brenda Dixon Gottschild
Black Theatre: Ritual Performance in the African Diaspora, edited by Harrison, Walker, and Edwards
The Routledge Reader in Politics and Performance, edited by Lizbeth Goodman and Jane de Gay
No Surrender! No Retreat!: African American Pioneer Performers of Twentieth-Century American Theatre by Glenda E. Gill
A Sourcebook of African American Performance by Anna Bean
Africans on Stage: Studies in Ethnological Show Business, edited by Bernth Lindfors