1. Exiting Eden: U.S. Avant-Garde Theatre’s Humanist Controversy 1965-70 Fitzgerald, Jason Thomas 2017 Theses Theater--Political aspectsHumanismNew LeftQueer theoryBlack nationalismAvant-garde (Aesthetics)ExistentialismTheater and societySocial movementsBaraka, Amiri, 1934-2014Living Theatre (New York, N.Y.)Beck, Julian, 1925-1985Malina, Judith, 1926-2015Van Itallie, Jean Claude, 1936-Chaikin, Joseph, 1935-2003
2. Freedom and Equality Now! Contextualizing the Nexus between the Civil Rights Movement and Drama Nesmith, Nathaniel Graham 2012 Theses TheaterHistoryAfrican American--Civil rightsCivil rights movementsAfrican American theaterBlack nationalismBlack militant organizationsHansberry, Lorraine, 1930-1965Mitchell, LoftenDavis, OssieBaraka, Amiri, 1934-2014Sklar, George, 1908-1988Raisin in the sun (Hansberry, Lorraine)Purlie victorious (Davis, Ossie)Dutchman (Baraka, Amiri)