SELECTED PUBLICATIONS

Journal Article

Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin, Amma Y. “Lessons in Blackbody

         Minstrelsy: Old Plantation (1901) and the Manufacture of

         Black Authenticity.” The Drama Review: TDR 57, no 2

         (Summer 2013): 102-22. Special Edition on Blackface

         Minstrelsy, edited by Catherine Cole and Tracy Davis. 

Book Essay

Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin, Amma Y. “The Silent Laugh of Laughing Ben.”

        In A Tyranny of Documents: The Performance Historian as Film

        Noir Detective: Essays Dedicated to Brooks McNamara, edited             by Stephen Johnson, 193-200. Vol. 28, Performing Arts

        Resources. New York: Theater Library Association, 2011.

Digital Scholarly Publication

Ghartey-Tagoe Kootin, Amma Y. “ReView Bamboozled: Archival Affects.”Performance

         Philosophy. Digital Video (RT: 52:56). Anticipated June 2018 publication.

         Refereed Journal. 

News about Selected Publications

• "Race in America, 1880-1940" digital humanities project at Bowling Green University uses Dr. Amma's article "Lessons in Blackbody Minstrelsy" to write about "Performance and Spectacle." Also, courses like "Race on Stage" at Temple University have adopted the article into the curriculum.

• Leading theatre historians and archivists have published reviews discussing Dr. Amma's Book Essay "The Silent Laugh of Laughing Ben":​

  • Marini, Francesca. “A Tyranny of Documents: The Performing Arts Historian as Film Noir Detective.” Archivaria, The Journal of the Association of Canadian Archivists 75 (Spring 2013): 235-38.

  • Davis, Tracy C. “Stephen Johnson (ed.). A Tyranny of Documents: The Performing Arts Historian as Film Noir Detective.” Theatre Research in Canada / Recherches théâtrales au Canada [Online] 35, no. 2 (May 16, 2014).