Person · Female
Carla Blank
writer, editor, violin player
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- United States
- Since
- 1941–present
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Carla Blank is an American writer, editor, educator, choreographer, and dramaturge. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area, for more than four decades she has been a performer, director, and teacher of dance and theater, particularly involved with youth and community arts projects.
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Blank is editorial director of the Ishmael Reed Publishing Company, and has also lectured at such educational institutions as the University of California–Berkeley, Dartmouth College, and the University of Washington. She has written and edited a number of books, including Rediscovering America: The Making of Multicultural America, 1900–2000 (2003), Pow-Wow: Charting the Fault Lines in the American Experience, Short Fiction, From Then to Now (2009),
Storming the Old Boys' Citadel: Two Pioneer Women Architects of Nineteenth Century North America (2014), Bigotry on Broadway (2021) and A Jew in Ramallah and Other Essays (November 2024).
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Ishmael Reed Quintet lead vocals, violin
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