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  • Chapter 13 - Black Theatre in the Age of Obama

  • Edited by Harvey Young, Boston University
  • Book:
    The Cambridge Companion to African American Theatre
    Published online:
    08 June 2023
    Print publication:
    22 June 2023, pp 258-282

  • Summary

    Harry J. Elam, Jr. temporally locates his chapter in the “age of Obama,” the period following the election of Barack Obama as the first Black president of the United States. After the 2008 election, he notes a shift in the way that critics and scholars talked about race, particularly Blackness. Quoting art curator Thelma Golden, Elam investigates, through four case studies, whether the “post-black” is “the new black.” He looks at the 2009 Broadway revival of August Wilson’s Joe Turner’s Come and Gone, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s Neighbors, Eisa Davis’s Bulrusher, and Fred Ebb and John Kander’s musical The Scottsboro Boys to address race politics, the reemergence of blackface, and the topic of mixed-race identity within the contemporary theatre.