Intiman's BULRUSHER: Beyond the Theatre
Intiman Theatre presents BULRUSHER by Eisa Davis from August 20 to September 14, 2019. Librarians at Seattle Public Library created this resource list of books and films to enhance your experience of the show.
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Bulrusher
The script of BULRUSHER, for your reading pleasure. BULRUSHER was a finalist for the 2007 Pulitzer Prize in Drama.
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Women, Race & Class
This classic work is a powerful study of the women's liberation movement in the United States and a key text of black feminism. Eisa Davis is the niece of political activist Angela Davis.
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Everything but the Burden
This collection of essays and prose from African American authors focuses on the appropriation of black culture by white America and includes Eisa Davis' "Scenes from Umkovu, a play."
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The Girl Who Fell From the Sky
"Rachel, the daughter of a Danish mother and a black G.I., becomes the sole survivor of a family tragedy. Rachel is forced to move to a new city, with her strict African American grandmother as her guardian and is thrust for the first time into a mostly black community. It's there that she comes to understand how the mystery and tragedy of her mother might be connected to her own uncertain identity."-- Algonquin Books. Winner of the 2008 Bellwether Prize for best fiction manuscript addressing issues of social justice.
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Free Angela and All Political Prisoners
This gripping documentary examines the life and legacy of Angela Davis, a significant figure in the American civil rights movement. Eisa Davis plays her aunt, Angela, in scenes recreating the past.
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Black, White, Other
Black, White, Other features Funderburg's interviews with 46 biracial adults, focusing on their varied lives and perspectives.
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Half and Half
Claudine O'Hearn's collection of eighteen essays address biracialism and biculturalism, specifically "the difficulties of not fitting into and the benefits of being part of two worlds." --Pantheon Books. Interviewees include Malcolm Gladwell and Danzy Senna.
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Stamped From the Beginning
A comprehensive history of anti-black racism focuses on the lives of five major players in American history, including Cotton Mather and Thomas Jefferson, and highlights the debates that took place between assimilationists and segregationists and between racists and antiracists.
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Moses
Kirsch's biography begins with Moses floating by the bulrushes of the river Nile. Kirsch includes "extensive secondary literature that has grown up around the sparse biblical material" (Publishers Weekly) and examines the strong women who influenced Moses throughout his life.
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Boy, Snow, Bird
This unique interpretation of Snow White is set in the 1950s and focuses on one family's racial identity, secrets, interpretations of beauty and quest for social justice.
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