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(RE)CONSTRUCTING COMMUNITY AND IDENTITY: HARLEM EXPERIMENTAL THEATRE AND SOCIAL PROTEST

This Hole is our inheritance of sorts.

Suzan-Lori Parks, The America Play

Absence, invisibility, a hole: these obstacles challenge an understanding of African American theatre history of the early twentieth century.1 Though the records of production at noncommercial black theatres are scarce, uncovering the activities of the Little Negro Theatres of Harlem enables scholars to re-imagine the story of its members and their contributions to this erased narrative of black performance.2 Towards this end, reconstructing the history of Harlem's Little Theatres is an act of "reading absence"-chasing a fleeting record glimpsed in the all-but-lost pages of scrapbooks and nearly forgotten memories of ...

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