Series: Studies in African American History and Culture

This ethnographic study explores the status of African Americans during the Reconstruction era, examining the particularities of topics such as race relations, social systems, legal systems, and economic and political status. Rather than dealing with the status of African Americans as an isolated human rights issue, Gao examines the African American role in American society within the broader context of...

While chronicling the development of Teer's National Black Theatre of Harlem, this study explores the National Black Theatre's quest to develop a new black theory of acting. Teer's theory of performance was realised in a theatre that combined elements of Pentacostal worship and African ritual, melding spontaneity from the performers, percussive music, singing, dancing, emotional expression from both actors and...

Finalist for the 2007 Seymour Medal of the Society for American Baseball Research (SABR). Winner of the 2007 Robert Peterson Book Award of the Negro Leagues Committee of the Society for American Baseball. When to Stop the Cheering? documents the close and often conflicted relationship between the black press and black baseball, beginning with the first Negro professional league of...