Readings
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TBDS readings are audio clips of cited sources divided into three categories: reference texts, poetry, and plays & novels. each list is in alphabetical order by the author’s last name.
reference texts
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Double Jeopardy: To Be Black and Female by Frances Beale
"Sturdy Black Bridges" on the American Stage by Susanna A. Bösch (1)
"Sturdy Black Bridges" on the American Stage by Susanna A. Bösch (2)
C
Black Drama of the Federal Theatre Era by E. Quita Craig
The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual by Harold Cruse
H
Belonging: A Culture of Place by bell hooks
Outlaw Culture by bell hooks
From 'Mules and Men' by Zora Neale Hurston
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From Mammy to Miss America and Beyond by K. Sue Jewell
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Zora Neale Hurston A Life in Letters collected and edited by Carla Kaplan (1)
Zora Neale Hurston A Life in Letters collected and edited by Carla Kaplan (2)
Zora Neale Hurston A Life in Letters collected and edited by Carla Kaplan (3)
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The Uses of the Erotic by Audre Lorde
Tyler Perry's Stage as a Lonely Place for Black Queers by Timothy S. Lyle (1)
Tyler Perry's Stage as a Lonely Place for Black Queers by Timothy S. Lyle (2)
Tyler Perry's Stage as a Lonely Place for Black Queers by Timothy S. Lyle (3)
Tyler Perry's Stage as a Lonely Place for Black Queers by Timothy S. Lyle (4)
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Black Women Playwrights: Visions on the American Stage ed. by Carol P. Marsh-Lockett
Theorizing Black Theatre by Henry D. Miller (1)
Valorizing Ancestor Discourse: Harlem Renaissance Criticism and Theatre Theory by Henry D. Miller 1
Valorizing Ancestor Discourse: Harlem Renaissance Criticism and Theatre Theory by Henry D. Miller 2
Valorizing Ancestor Discourse: Harlem Renaissance Criticism and Theatre Theory by Henry D. Miller 3
Theorizing Black Theatre by Henry D. Miller (2)
Theorizing Black Theatre by Henry D. Miller (3)
The Site of Memory by Toni Morrison 1
The Site of Memory by Toni Morrison 2
The Site of Memory by Toni Morrison 3
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'I'm Black When I'm Singing, I'm Blue When I Ain't' and Other Plays by Sonia Sanchez
In The Wake: On Blackness and Being by Christina Sharpe (1)
In The Wake: On Blackness and Being by Christina Sharpe (2)
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What the Twilight Says: An Overture by Derek Walcott (1)
What the Twilight Says: An Overture by Derek Walcott (2)
Black Macho & the Myth of the Superwoman by Michele Wallace (1)
Black Macho & the Myth of the Superwoman Michele Wallace (2)
How 'Bigger' Was Born by Richard Wright
poetry
A Black Man Talks of Reaping by Arna Bontemps
a song in the front yard by Gwendolyn Brooks
Her Story by Naomi Long Madgett
The Race Question by Naomi Long Madgett
The Egg Boiler by Gwendolyn Brooks
description of Maud Martha by Gwendolyn Brooks
Love After Love by Derek Walcott
Names by Derek Walcott
To Black Women by Gwendolyn Brooks
The Prodigal by Derek Walcott
plays & novels
Invisible Man by Ralph Ellison
Daddy Was A Number Runner by Louise Meriwether
for colored girls by Ntozake Shange
Dream on Monkey Mountain by Derek Walcott