Edition |
1st Anchor Books ed. |
Description |
lx, 141 p. : ill. ; 20 cm. |
Contents |
Acknowledgments -- Foreword / Cornel West -- Introduction -- Crown heights conflict : Background information -- Crown heights, Brooklyn : Chronology -- Characters -- Production history -- Fires in the Mirror : Identity : Desert / Ntozake Shange -- Static / Anonymous Lubavitcher Woman -- 101 Dalmatians / George C. Wolfe -- Mirrors : Mirrors and Distortions / Aaron M. Bernstein -- Hair : Look in the Mirror / Anonymous Girl -- Me and James's Thing / Reverend Al Sharpton -- Wigs / Rivkah Siegal -- Race : Rope / Angela Davis -- Rhythm : Rhythm and Poetry / Monique "Big Mo" Matthews -- Seven verses : Roots / Leonard Jeffries -- Near Enough to Reach / Letty Cottin Pogrebin -- Seven Verses / Minister Conrad Mohammed -- Isaac / Lette Cottin Pogrebin -- Lousy Language / Robert Sherman -- Crown Heights, Brooklyn, August 1991 : No blood in His feet / Rabbi Joseph Spielman -- Mexican Standoff / Reverend Canon Doctor Heron Sam -- Wa Wa Wa / Anonymous Young Man #1 -- "Heil Hitler" / Michael S. Miller -- Knew How to Use Certain Words / Henry Rice -- My Brother's Blood / Norman Rosenbaum -- Sixteen Hours Difference / Norman Rosenbaum -- Bad Boy / Anonymous Young Man #2 -- Chords / Sonny Carson -- Ovens / Rabbi Shea Hecht -- Rain / Reverend Al Sharpton -- Rage / Richard Green -- Coup / Roslyn Malamud -- Pogroms / Reuven Ostrov -- Lingering / Carmel Cato. |
Summary |
Last year's acclaimed off-Broadway play is as much a commentary on current racial tensions as it is a work of drama. Award-winning writer and solo performer Smith derived her scripts from interviews with people who experienced or observed New York's 1991 Crown Heights racial riots. As seen on PBS. |
Subject |
Crown Heights (New York, N.Y.) -- History -- Drama.
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Violence -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century -- Drama.
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New York (N.Y.) -- Race relations -- Drama.
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African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.
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Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.
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ISBN |
0385470142 : $10.00 ($12.95 Can.) |
Standard No. |
9780385470148 |
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