Racial Geometries of the Black Atlantic, Asian Pacific and American Theatre - (Studies in International Performance) by Shannon Steen (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"Drawing on original archival research, Racial Geometries examines popular forms of performance -- from musical theatre and minstrelsy to non-theatrical forms like Chinatown tourism -- to expose how American racial formation between the two World Wars was not determined only within national borders but traded on and influenced international dynamics"--Provided by publisher.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br>An exciting new work on how black and Asian racial structures were woven together within US theatrical practices in the run up to the Second World War, Steen uses this history to model how we might use performance histories to more carefully assess how racial formation occurs on the boundaries between racial groups in an international context.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br>SHANNON STEEN is assistant professor of Theatre, Dance, and Performance Studies at the University of California at Berkeley, USA, where she is also faculty for the program in American Studies. She is the co-editor with Heike Raphael-Hernandez of <em>AfroAsian Encounters: History, Culture, Politics</em>. Prior to her appointment at Berkeley, she served as faculty in the English Department at Northwestern University.
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