T D 301 Lecture Notes - Lecture 24: Obie Award, Lorraine Hansberry, Langston Hughes
Document Summary
Black power movement: fight for black integrity, separatist movement. Wanted to be treated separately form how anglo-saxons were currently treating them. Triggered by assassination of malcolm x in 1965. Concerned with visibility of black culture: artists promoted it. Wanted to make theatre for and by black people: directors, cast, playwrights, audience = all black, very unusual for the time. Legacy: lorraine hansberry, langston hughes, harlem renaissance (that hughes was a part of) = predecessors of bam, encouraged black communities to have own journals, publishing houses, studies programs. Focus on black history: promoted and further developed black aesthetics. Artistic methods/products by, for, and about black ppl. The response to discrimination and lingering effects of slavery: slavery. Lived through discrimination for most of his life. Yet, praised for work on black rights and culture: founded the black arts repertory theatre, commissioned to write the revolutionary theatre slavery.
