White Skin, Black Voice: a study of the characterization of African Americans in Thomas Gibbons' Bee-Luther-Hatchee (1999), permanent collection (2003), a house with no walls (2007)

Abstract

White playwrights’ attempts to speak for African Americans in the nineteenth and twentieth century have been considered by critics as controversial. Ralph Matthwes, in his article "The Negro Theatre- A Dodo Bird" (1934),