Represents the first comprehensive publication on the subject

Two-part structure approaches the topic both chronologically and thematically

Features contributions from some of the most established figures in the field

1. Introduction.- Part I. Race and Racism in Contemporary Theatre.- 2. The American Theatrical Canon and the Struggle for Racial Equality in British Theatre.- 3. Racialization and Contemporary German Theatre.- 4. Dangerous Dialogues': Questioning Constructions of Race in South Pacific Theatre.- 5 Staging the Ambiguities of Race: Polymorphous Indigenous Dramaturgies in Canada.- 6. Representing the Roma Experience on the Contemporary Romanian Stage: The Intersectional Lenses of Giuvlipen's Anti-racist and Feminist Theatre Works.- Part II. War, Conflict and the Nation.- 7. Race as Category in Nazi German Theatre.- 8. M¿ori Theatre in Not-Quite-Post-Colonial Aotearoa New Zealand.- 9. Racial Nationalism and the Serbian Theatre: From Radovan III to DAH.- 10. The Palestinians in the Israeli Theatre.- 11. Faces of a Long Unspoken Collective Trauma: Theatrical Representations of Friendship, Love, Betrayal, andPain in the Landscape of War in Contemporary Turkey.- 12. Staging Race in White South African Afrikaans Theatre.- Part III. Blackness and the African Diaspora.- 13. In the Prison of Their Skins: Performing Race in Caribbean Theatre.- 14. Black Women in Post-revolutionary Cuban Theatreer.- 15. Black Performances and Black Artists Performing in Contemporary Brazil.- 16. Lackface: Blackface Masking in Contemporary US Theatre.- 17. Fighting Racism on the Contemporary Francophone Stage.- 18. 'Though we are written into the landscape you don't see us' (Testament, 2018). Black Faces in White Spaces: Whiteness as Terror and the Terror of Un-belonging in Black Men Walking.- Part IV. Constructions of Whiteness and the 'Other'.- 19. 'A Wretched Caricature...Unworthy of America': Charles Mathews's Representation of the Yankee.- 20. The Language of Blackness: Representations of Africans and African-Americans on the British Stage After Uncle Tom's Cabin.- 21. Susan Glaspell's Trifles and Inheritors: White Settler Hunger, Debt and the Blackhawk Purchase Lands.- 22. Beyond the Peyote Dance: The Raramuri Tribe and 'Mexico' Representations in Antonin Artaud's Work.- 23. Representing and Re-presenting Others in Yorùbá Performance.- 24. Pigs and Dogs and The Bogus Woman: Racialized Performance in Anglo-British Women Playwrights.- 25. Race, Occidentalism/Orientalism and Sino-centrism in Contemporary Chinese Theatre.