Baraka, Imamu Amin "Black 'Revolutionary' Poets Should Also Be Playwrights " Black World, April, 1972, pp. 4-7.

A manifesto for black playwrights to use the theater as a platform for demanding social change.

Brown-Gmllory, Elizabeth. Their Place on the Stage: Black Women Playwrights at America, Greenwood Press, 1988.

A treatise on the influence of black female playwrights with part of one chapter devoted to Shange.