Theater Final

Values, standards, and patterns of behavior of a particular group of people

Fads and fashions that dominate mainstream media, music, and art for a period of time

Process by which we learn about our culture

The endeavor to overcome all forms of discrimination, including racism, sexism, and homophobia, so that people can coexist peacefully and attempt to achieve a pluralistic society

Shortcuts in thinking that attribute a generalized identity to people who are not like us

Promotes a particular people's cultural identity and invites members of that culture and other cultures to experience that culture's joys, problems, history, traditions, and point of view

Objects to the dominant culture's control and demands that a minority culture's voice and political agenda be heard

Mixes different cultures in an attempt to find understanding or commonality among them

A time when black artists, actors, poets, musicians, and writers converged in Harlem to tell the stories of their lives, their history, and their people, contrary to white stereotypes of blacks

Seeing the world from our own point of view, and most people tend to think that their take on it, as seen through their culture, is the correct view

Theaterical performance that is enacted in a place where people would not normally expect to see one. the performers attempt to disguise the fact that it is a performance from those who observe and who may choose to participate in it, encouraging the spectators to view it as a real event

The functioning of humans when they come together into groups

To give away a lot of free tickets to family members and friends to make the appearance of a full house

Evaluations of a production and often published in magazines and newspapers

A discriminating, often scholarly interpretation and analysis of a play, an artist's body of work, or type or period of theater