Bigotry on Broadway [Paperback]

In this hard-hitting anthology, Ishmael Reed and Carla Blank have invited 12 informed and accomplished writers and cultural commentators, both women and men, who are rarely heard to comment on the long-standing bigotry on Broadway towards many different ethnic minorities. Contributors are Lonely Christopher, Tommy Curry, Jack Foley, Emil Guillermo, Claire J. Harris, Yuri Kageyama, Soraya McDonald, Nancy Mercado, Aimee Phan, Elizabeth Theobold Richards, Shawn Wong and David Yearsley, in addition to Ishmael Reed and Carla Blank."Insightful essays and interviews examine how white power structures on Broadway have shaped musical theater’s representations of Black, Indigenous, and people of color, or led to their absence ... A book for all readers interested in the history of Broadway musicals, theater criticism, and the role of whiteness in Broadway’s misrepresentations."  —
Library Journal

 On previous anthologies by Ishmael Reed and Carla Blank
 
OnPowwow: Charting the Fault Lines of the American Experience—Short Fiction from Then to Now:
 
"Reed and Blank have selected molten and magical tales that dramatically explore the consequences of our attitudes toward race, ethnicity, gender, class, and sexuality…. this is a live-wire, from-sea-to-shining-sea collection in which we hear America singing."—Donna Seaman, Booklist


 
 "Highly recommended"—Gene Shaw,Library Journal


 
 "captivating, multifarious look at the American experience through its short fiction."—Publishers Weekly


 OnRediscovering America: the Making of Multicultural America, 1900-2000written and edited by Carla Blank

"[Ishmael Reed] is the purest literary troublemaker we currently have… a bookl7