Contents
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Introduction | Andrew Gibb
American Theatre and Its Ongoing Racial Crisis | Soyica Diggs Colbert
Living Objects: How Contemporary African American Puppet Artists “Figure” Race | Paulette Richards
Past Is Precedent: Native Survivance and Cross-Generational Storytelling in Mary Kathryn Nagle’s Sovereignty | Miriam Hahn Thomas
Afro-Latinidad: Being Black and Latinx in Theatre Today | Daphnie Sicre
Dream Demurred: Interrogating Whiteness in Bruce Norris’s Clybourne Park | Gregory S. Carr
Performing Multiple Meanings: The Lion Dance in Boston’s Chinatown | Casey Avaunt
Reifying Whiteness in Cicely Hamilton’s A Pageant of Great Women | Elise Robinson
Artistic Reparations | Troy L. Scarborough
Breaking the Shackles: Reshaping the Stigma of Stereotypes in Character Development | Shontelle Thrash
The “Topsification” of Uncle Tom’s Cabin | Christopher Corbo
Slippery Borders and Mythic Spaces: Race, Class, and Ressentiment in Lynn Nottage’s Sweat | M. Scott Phillips
True Lies: The Myth of Color-Blind Casting and the Silencing of the Black Playwright in American Theatre | LyaNisha R. Gonzalez
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