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<p>In the years between the Harlem Renaissance and World War II, African American playwrights gave birth to a vital black theater movement in the U.S. It was a movement overwhelmingly concerned with the role of religion in black identity. In a time of profound social transformation fueled by a massive migration from the rural south to the urban‑industrial centers of the north, scripts penned by dozens of black playwrights reflected cultural tensions, often rooted in class, that revealed competin
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- Author
- Craig R. Prentiss
- Publisher
- New York University Press
- Published
- 2013
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780814708088
- Category
- history
- Subjects
- Religion, Science, Literary Fiction
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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