• Fig. 20. Final scene from the Metropolitan Opera’s production of The Emperor Jones in 1933, featuring Hemsley Winfield’s New Negro Art Theatre Dance Group. Photo: Carlo Edwards, Metropolitan Opera Archives.

Final tableau from the Metropolitan Opera House production of The Emperor Jones in 1933

From Racing the Great White Way: Black Performance, Eugene O'Neill, and the Transformation of Broadway by Katie N. Johnson

  • Final scene from the Metropolitan Opera’s production of The Emperor Jones in 1933, featuring Hemsley Winfield’s New Negro Art Theatre. Photo: Carlo Edwards, Metropolitan Opera Archives.
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  • African American Studies
  • Theater and Performance
  • American Studies
  • Literary Studies:American Literature
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  • 1933
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