Works by
James V. Hatch
(aka James Vernon Hatch)
(Writer)

• Black Image on the American Stage: A Bibliography of Plays and Musicals, 1770-1970 (1970)

• Black Playwrights, 1823-1977: An Annotated Bibliography of Plays (1977) with Omanii Abdullah, ed.

• The Roots of African American Drama (1990) with Leo Hamalian, ed.

• Sorrow Is the Only Faithful One (1995) by James V. Hatch
  A luscious read for fans of several genres, James Hatch's biography of Owen Dodson is the story of a gifted poet, novelist, educator, and director whose life was a lonely struggle with arthritis, alcohol, racism, and homophobic prejudice.

• Black Theatre, USA: Plays by African Americans: The Recent Period, 1935-Today (1996) with: Ted Shine

• Inside the Minstrel Mask: Readings in Nineteenth-Century Blackface Minstrelsy (1996), Annemarie Bean (Editor), Brooks McNamara, and James V. Hatch, eds.
  As the blackface minstrel show evolved from its beginnings in the American Revolution to its peak during the late 1800s, its frenetic dances, low-brow humor, and lively music provided more than mere entertainment. Indeed, these imitations and parodies shaped society's perceptions of African Americans-and of women-as well as made their mark on national identity, policymaking decisions, and other entertainment forms such as vaudeville, burlesque, the revue, and, eventually, film, radio, and television. Gathered here are rare primary materials-including firsthand accounts of minstrel shows, minstrelsy guides, jokes, sketches, and sheet music-and the best of contemporary scholarship on minstrelsy.

• Lost Plays of the Harlem Renaissance 1920-1940 (1996) with Leo Hamalian, ed.

• A History of African American Theatre (2003) with  Errol G. Hill
  This definitive history of African-American theatre embraces companies from across the U.S., as well as the anglophone Caribbean and African-American companies touring Europe, Australia and Africa. Representing a catholicity of styles, from African ritual to European forms, amateur to professional, and political nationalism to integration, the volume covers all aspects of performance. It includes minstrel, vaudeville, and cabaret acts, as well as shows written by whites that used black casts.

Fiction

• The Stone House, A Blues Legend by James V. Hatch and Suzanne Noguere (2000)