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Author Smith, Anna Deavere.

Title Fires in the mirror : Crown Heights, Brooklyn, and other identities / Anna Deavere Smith ; with a foreword by Cornel West.

Imprint New York : Anchor Books/Doubleday, 1993.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 2nd Floor Stacks  812.54 Sm51f 1993    ---  Available
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.
Violence -- New York (State) -- New York -- History -- 20th century -- Drama.
New York (N.Y.) -- Race relations -- Drama.
African Americans -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.
Jews -- New York (State) -- New York -- Drama.
ISBN 0385470142 : $10.00 ($12.95 Can.)
Standard No. 9780385470148

 
    
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