Introduction: Beyond an integrationist/separatist binary -- Uptown and downtown with the American Negro Theatre -- The black dramas of the American Negro Theatre -- Anna Lucasta in Harlem and on Broadway -- Frederick O'Neal's two-front fight for integration in the theatre -- Black selfhood and interracial communion in the drama of Alice Childress -- Communal belonging and solitary sainthood: the films of Sidney Poitier -- Continuations.
