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Rosamond Gilder: Influential Talisman for African-American Performers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 July 2009

Glenda Gill
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More than any other Caucasian critic of her generation, Rosamond Gilder created opportunities for people of color. While many critics came to find fault, Gilder helped African-American actors, playwrights, directors, scene designers and dancers, not only in her celebration and recognition of them, but in her fairness and objectivity in evaluating their work.

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Theatre Survey , Volume 37 , Issue 1 , May 1996 , pp. 99 - 117
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Copyright © American Society for Theatre Research 1996

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5. See Krasner's, Davis, “Whose Role Is It Anyway?: Charles Gilpin and the Harlem Renaissance,” African-American Review 29:3 (1995): 483–496CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

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24. Ibid., 841.

25. 26 October 1940.

26. Theatre Arts Monthly, December 1940, 842; 847.

27. Interview with author, Durham (North Carolina), 26 June 1991.

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29. Theatre Arts Monthly, May 1941, 331–332.

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