Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal write by Kate Dossett. This book was released on 2020-01-29. Radical Black Theatre in the New Deal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Between 1935 and 1939, the United States government paid out-of-work artists to write, act, and stage theatre as part of the Federal Theatre Project (FTP), a New Deal job relief program. In segregated "Negro Units" set up under the FTP, African American artists took on theatre work usually reserved for whites, staged black versions of "white" classics, and developed radical new dramas. In this fresh history of the FTP Negro Units, Kate Dossett examines what she calls the black performance community—a broad network of actors, dramatists, audiences, critics, and community activists—who made and remade black theatre manuscripts for the Negro Units and other theatre companies from New York to Seattle. Tracing how African American playwrights and troupes developed these manuscripts and how they were then contested, revised, and reinterpreted, Dossett argues that these texts constitute an archive of black agency, and understanding their history allows us to consider black dramas on their own terms. The cultural and intellectual labor of black theatre artists was at the heart of radical politics in 1930s America, and their work became an important battleground in a turbulent decade.
The New New Deal
The New New Deal - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The New New Deal write by Michael Grunwald. This book was released on 2012-08-14. The New New Deal available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In a riveting account based on new documents and interviews with more than 400 sources on both sides of the aisle, award-winning reporter Michael Grunwald reveals the vivid story behind President Obama’s $800 billion stimulus bill, one of the most important and least understood pieces of legislation in the history of the country. Grunwald’s meticulous reporting shows how the stimulus, though reviled on the right and the left, helped prevent a depression while jump-starting the president’s agenda for lasting change. As ambitious and far-reaching as FDR’s New Deal, the Recovery Act is a down payment on the nation’s economic and environmental future, the purest distillation of change in the Obama era. The stimulus has launched a transition to a clean-energy economy, doubled our renewable power, and financed unprecedented investments in energy efficiency, a smarter grid, electric cars, advanced biofuels, and green manufacturing. It is computerizing America’s pen-and-paper medical system. Its Race to the Top is the boldest education reform in U.S. history. It has put in place the biggest middle-class tax cuts in a generation, the largest research investments ever, and the most extensive infrastructure investments since Eisenhower’s interstate highway system. It includes the largest expansion of antipoverty programs since the Great Society, lifting millions of Americans above the poverty line, reducing homelessness, and modernizing unemployment insurance. Like the first New Deal, Obama’s stimulus has created legacies that last: the world’s largest wind and solar projects, a new battery industry, a fledgling high-speed rail network, and the world’s highest-speed Internet network. Michael Grunwald goes behind the scenes—sitting in on cabinet meetings, as well as recounting the secret strategy sessions where Republicans devised their resistance to Obama—to show how the stimulus was born, how it fueled a resurgence on the right, and how it is changing America. The New New Deal shatters the conventional Washington narrative and it will redefine the way Obama’s first term is perceived.
The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism, 1860-1914
The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism, 1860-1914 - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism, 1860-1914 write by Ilham Khuri-Makdisi. This book was released on 2013-08-03. The Eastern Mediterranean and the Making of Global Radicalism, 1860-1914 available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In this groundbreaking book, Ilham Khuri-Makdisi establishes the existence of a special radical trajectory spanning four continents and linking Beirut, Cairo, and Alexandria between 1860 and 1914. She shows that socialist and anarchist ideas were regularly discussed, disseminated, and reworked among intellectuals, workers, dramatists, Egyptians, Ottoman Syrians, ethnic Italians, Greeks, and many others in these cities. In situating the Middle East within the context of world history, Khuri-Makdisi challenges nationalist and elite narratives of Mediterranean and Middle Eastern history as well as Eurocentric ideas about global radical movements. The book demonstrates that these radical trajectories played a fundamental role in shaping societies throughout the world and offers a powerful rethinking of Ottoman intellectual and social history.
The Federal Theatre Project
The Federal Theatre Project - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Federal Theatre Project write by Barry Witham. This book was released on 2003-09-25. The Federal Theatre Project available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This 2003 book provides a detailed examination of the operations of the US Federal Theatre Project in the decade of the 1930s.
Pass Over
Pass Over - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Pass Over write by Antoinette Nwandu. This book was released on 2020-02-27. Pass Over available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A lamppost. Night. Two friends are passing time. Stuck. Waiting for change. Inspired by Waiting for Godot and the Exodus, Antoinette Nwandu fuses poetry, humour and humanity in a rare and politically charged new play which exposes the experiences of young men in a world that refuses to see them. Pass Over by Antoinette Nwandu received its UK premiere at the Kiln Theatre, London, in February 2020.
