Article: Putting black culture on stage: August Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle.(Essay)

Article: Mixed-media exhibit interprets August Wilson's 10-play ...
Tribune-Review/Pittsburgh Tribune-Review;  May 31, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... Pittsburgh- area artists. Each was inspired by the "Pittsburgh Cycle," Wilson's 10-play magnum opus that chronicles the ... gray Pittsburgh sky. All but one of the plays of the "Pittsburgh Cycle" is set in the Hill District. So in an effort to connect ...

Article: Completing Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle.(Time ...
Daily Herald (Arlington Heights, IL);  January 19, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... about six months before his death in October 2005, makes it the first in the country to produce all 10 plays in Wilson's Pittsburgh Cycle, (named for that city's Hill District where all but one of them takes place). A description of the plays, the year ...

Article: Why Whites Embrace BLACK CULTURE.(the appeal of ...
Jet;  June 25, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... everyone wants to benefit from it. Black culture--from the style of dress to music ... sought to find out why Whites embrace Black culture. Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, noted professor ... exactly why so many Whites embrace Black culture. "Whites are drawn to Black culture ...

Article: MU events recognize Black Culture Week
Columbia Daily Tribune;  November 11, 2006 ;     454 words ... ... commentary will be featured during Black Culture Week at University of Missouri ... tomorrow at the Gaines/Oldham Black Culture Center, 813 Virginia Ave., kicks off five days of celebrating black culture. Also in store for the week are ...

Article: COLUMN: Non-blacks will never fully understand black ...
University Wire;  March 16, 2005 ;     700+ words ... ... America's ultimate outside, the Black culture." -- "Everything But the ... White People are Taking from Black Culture" by Greg Tate Ironically ... music genre deeply rooted in black culture, has a primarily white and ...

Article: KWANZAA AND THE COMMODIFICATION OF BLACK CULTURE
Black Renaissance;  October 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ... ... brown urban youth. When an aspect of black culture is turned into a commodity or a thing ... view of the critics, commodifying black culture is the equivalent of picking a luscious ... embalming or mummifying a living thing. Black culture commodified similarly loses its organic ...

Article: The evolution of Black Culture Centers: between ...
Diverse Issues in Higher Education;  January 11, 2007 ;     700+ words ... ... beyond the anecdotal evidence that Black culture centers are positive,' says Dr ... organization, the Association for Black Culture Centers. "We're trying to get past ... hard evidence." The Association for Black Culture Centers' plan to add retention programs ...