"Over the Rainbow": Fantasy Lands, Dream Worlds, and Magic Kingdoms

Notes

1. Feminista Jones, “The Wiz, the Black Arts Movement, and Black Liberation,” Storify, last modified December 3, 2015, https://storify.com/FeministaJones/the-wiz-the-black-arts-movement-and-black-liberati.
2. Lisa Gail Collins and Margo Natalie Crawford, “Introduction: Power to the People!: The Art of Black Power,” In New Thoughts on the Black Arts Movement, ed. Lisa Gail Collins and Margo Natalie Crawford, (New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, 2006), 1.
3. Collins and Crawford, 2.
4. Collins and Crawford, 3.
5. Ibid.
6. “Black Nationalism and Black Power,” Digital History, Last modified 2016, http://www.digitalhistory.uh.edu/disp_textbook.cfm?smtID=2&psid=3331.
7. Amiri Baraka, 161. FIX THIS
8. Baraka, 162.
9. Baraka, 164.
10. Amiri Baraka, “Black Art,”
11. Larry Neal, “The Black Arts Movement,” The Drama Review: TDR 12, no. 4 (1968): 29.
12. Kayuma ya Salaam, “Historical Overviews of the Black Arts Movement,” The Oxford Companion to African American Literature (New York: Oxford UP, 1997), accessed at http://www.english.illinois.edu/maps/blackarts/historical.htm.
13. Neal, 29.
14. Ibid.
15. Neal, 30.
16. Ibid.
17. James Edward Smethurst, The Black Arts Movement: Literary Nationalism in the 1960s and 1970s, (Chapel Hill: The University of North Carolina Press, 2005), 58.
18. Smethurst, 28
19. Ibid.
20. Smethurst, 31-32.
21. Smethurst, 62.
22. Smethurst, 63.
23. Ibid.
24. Smethurst, 69.
25. Mance, 90.
26. Justin Wm. Moyer, “How ‘The Wiz’ was inspired by the 1970s ‘est’ craze, Thestar.com, Last modified April 3, 2015, https://www.thestar.com/news/insight/2015/04/03/how-the-wiz-was-inspired-by-1970s-est-craze.html.
27. Adam Howard, “How Lumet’s ‘The Wiz’ became a black cult classic,” The Grio, Last modified April 11, 2011, http://thegrio.com/2011/04/11/how-lumets-the-wiz-became-a-black-cult-classic/.
28. Ibid.
29. Harry M. Benshoff and Sean Griffin, America on Film: Representing Race, Class, Gender and Sexuality at the Movies (Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing, 2014), 88.
30. Sidney Lumet and Dan Yakir, “Wiz Kid,” Film Comment 1, no. 6 (1978), 50.
31. Smethurst, 28.
32. Lumet and Yakir, 50-51.
33. Al Auster, “The Wiz: Review,” Cineaste 9, no. 2 (1978-79), 41.
34. Ibid.
35. Mance, 91.
36. The Wiz, directed by Sidney Lumet, (1978; Los Angeles, CA: Universal Studios Home Entertainment, 2009), DVD.
37. The Wiz.
38. Rhonda Williams, “The Wiz: American Culture at Its Best,” In The Universe of Oz: Essays on Baum’s Series and Its Progeny, ed. Kevin K. Durand and Mary K. Leigh, (New York: McFarland, 2010), 191.
39. Ibid.
40. Williams, 194-95.
41. Wililams, 195.
42. Williams, 196.
43. Williams, 198.
44. Lumet and Yakir, 51.
45. Mance, 93.
46. Ibid.
47. Mance, 95-6.
48. Mance, 96.
49. Nikki Giovanni, “Beautiful Black Men (With compliments and apologies to all not mentioned by name),” In The Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni, (New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1996), 54.
50. Qtd. in Williams, 190.
51. Sullivan, 21-22.
52. Jones, 1.
53. Jones, 1.
54. Curtis Linton and Glenn E. Singleton, Courageous Conversations About Race, (Thousand Oaks, CA: Corwin Press, 2006), 17.
55. Abigail Keel and Matt Kielty, Debatable, podcast audio, 59:41, March 11, 2016, http://www.radiolab.org/story/debatable.