Theater and cultural politics for a new world : an anthology / edited by Chinua Thelwell.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Chinua Thelwell -- New WORLD Theater. Fertile ground: how New WORLD Theater began / Elizabeth Méndez Berry -- Steps towards a new world / Roberta Uno -- "Imagining" and "restaging" otherwise: New WORLD Theater, memory work, and multiculturalist critique / Cathy J. Schlund-Vials -- Third World studies / Gary Y. Okihiro -- All the stage's a world: the organzation of international, multicultural, and global theater companies in the US / Esther Kim Lee -- Homes at the ends of the WORLD: repertoires of access and agency out of New WORLD Theater (1979-2009) / Paul Bonin-Rodriguez -- Imagining a "New WORLD": Asian American women playwrights' archives in western Massachusetts / Lucy Mae San Pablo Burns -- New world futures: changing demographics, polyculturalism, and Future Aesthetics. Beyond demographics: Cornerstone, New WORLD, INTAR, and the Theater of the Possible / Michael John Garcés -- Who tells your story? Hamilton, Future Aesthetics, and Haiti / Chinua Thelwell -- Life as primary text: Youth Speaks through the new world / James Kass -- Hip Hop as pedagogy: the Hip Hop Theatre Initiative / Daniel Banks -- An uncharted persistence: alternative minoritarian theater in austere Chicago / Jasmine Mahmoud -- Whose space is it anyway? / Will Power -- A future for American Indian theater? / Hanay Geiogamah -- Culture, ethnicity and the inherent theater of hip-hop / Joseph Schloss -- We are not alone: a community of common values / Mark Valdez -- Tear the pages out / Lê Thi Diem Thúy -- "Not a prophecy, but description": rethinking multiculturalism in the "post-racial" moment / Jeff Chang -- Afterword / Bill Rauch.