Black separatist theater rejected white inclusion as an artistic and political aim

Evidence

Thus, Slave Ship provided a collective catharsis—from confinement and suffering to struggle and release. Vince Aletti, who reviewed the play for Rat, compared it favorably with Paradise Now not just because of the score but for Jones’s surgical precision as opposed to the Beck’s “self-indulgent repetition.” Whereas Paradise Now sought to coerce inclusion, Slave Ship dramatized Black separatism. — J. Hoberman, Everything Is Now, 1505

Categorization

• ADDENDUM: Related to ‘Complaints About Immodesty’? Not directly. But this Black-separatism vs. white-coercive-inclusion distinction is a useful polarity for the gentrification-origin thesis: an avant-garde that refuses integration while occupying the same urban space.
• XREF: connects to: Denied inclusion within white institutions deepened black Baptist separatism — Evelyn Brooks Higginbotham, Righteous Discontent: The Women’s…, 247