| Title: | Civil Rights the Black Arts |
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| Course Section Number: | BLS-270-07 |
| Department: | Black Studies |
| Description: | THE-103-01=BLS-270-07=HIS-240-02. Instructor permission required. The 1950s and 60s saw the emergence of two sociopolitical movements: the mostly rural-based Civil Rights Movement, and the mostly urban-centered Black Arts Movement. In this course, we will examine Black theatrical contributions to the movements: witnessing the sanctioning of violence on Black citizens and the representation of Black life and community. In 1955, the funeral of Emmett Till ignited wide-spread activism and James Baldwin's THE AMEN CORNER premiered at Howard University. In 1959, Lorraine Hansberry's A RAISIN IN THE SUN was the first play written, directed, and performed by Black theater artists on Broadway; and paralleled the news coverage of the Greensboro, South Carolina lunch counter sit-ins, as well as simultaneous sit-ins across the South. In the 1960s, Black-run theatres such as the New Lafayette in Harlem, the Negro Ensemble Company, and the Free Southern Theater produced playwrights Amiri Baraka, Ed Bullins, Ron Milner, Sonia Sanchez, Adrienne Kennedy, Alice Childress, Douglas Turner Ward and Joseph A. Walker, who were writing in a new Black idiom. In these plays of the Black Arts Movement, the protests and violence of the era are confronted on the stage, both in dialogue and action, melding the spheres of public and dramatic performance |
| Credits: | 1.00 |
| Start Date: | August 25, 2021 |
| End Date: | December 18, 2021 |
| Meeting Information: |
08/25/2021-12/17/2021 Immersion Component Monday, Wednesday, Friday 11:00AM - 11:50AM, Fine Arts Center, Room M120
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| Faculty: | Vogel, Heidi |
Course Status & Cross-Listings
| Cross-list Group Capacity: | 9 |
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| Cross-list Group Student Count: | 8 |
| Calculated Course Status: | OPEN |
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