E. Quita Craig.
Black Drama of the Federal Theatre Era: Beyond the Formal Horizons.
The University of Massachusetts Press, 1980. First edition.  Introduction by James V. Hatch. 0870232940 x/239 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 6.5" x 9.75", is bound in green cloth, with black lettering to spine. Book exhibits very light shelfwear. Binding is firm. Interior is clean and bright. Dust jacket has small closed tear in the upper outside corner of front panel and inside corner of rear panel. Bar code sticker is affixed at lower inside corner of rear panel. Jacket is preserved in mylar cover. Includes notes, bibliography and index.
"Acknowledging that the Federal Theatre provided black dramatists with upprecedented opportunities, the author stresses that it was no panacea. The dramatists discussed were faced with enormous problems in their attempts to bring meaningful black drama to the public, the most pressing of whcih were established stereotypes which they vigorously attacked, often by means of a "coded grapevine" which communicated different message to the black audience thatn that received by the white audience.
E. Quita Craig reviews several black plays which are historically, sociologically and technically important, and shows that they were often misinterpreted by white reviewers since neither black culture nor its African roots were generally understood in the 1930s."