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  • Nothing is black and white in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s ‘An Octoroon’

    Nothing is black and white in Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s ‘An Octoroon’ The Washington Post 2016-06-06 Peter Marks, Theater critic Jon Hudson Odom, left, as George, Maggie Wilder, center, as Dora and Kathyrn Tkel as Zoe in “An Octoroon.” (Scott Suchman) “Hi, everyone, I’m a black playwright!” the actor Jon Hudson Odom exclaims at the outset of…

  • An Octoroon

    An Octoroon Woolly Mammoth Theater 641 D Street, NW Washington, D.C. 20004 2016-05-30 through 2016-06-26 By Branden Jacobs-Jenkins Directed by Nataki Garrett A plantation on the brink of foreclosure. A young gentleman falling for the part-black daughter of the estate’s owner. An evil swindler plotting to buy her for himself. Meanwhile, the slaves are trying…

  • “[She] Passed Down Orleans Street, a Polished Dandy”: The Queer Race Romance of Ludwig von Reizenstein’s The Mysteries of New Orleans

    “[She] Passed Down Orleans Street, a Polished Dandy”: The Queer Race Romance of Ludwig von Reizenstein’s The Mysteries of New Orleans Studies in American Fiction Volume 43, Issue 1, Spring 2016 pages 27-50 DOI: 10.1353/saf.2016.0005 Lauren Heintz Department of English California State University, Los Angeles Ludwig von Reizenstein’s sensational, serialized novel, The Mysteries of New…

  • Great Lakes Creoles A French-Indian Community on the Northern Borderlands, Prairie du Chien, 1750-1860 by Lucy Eldersveld Murphy (review)

    Great Lakes Creoles A French-Indian Community on the Northern Borderlands, Prairie du Chien, 1750-1860 by Lucy Eldersveld Murphy (review) Ohio Valley History Volume 16, Number 1, Spring 2016 pages 81-83 Margo Lambert, Assistant Professor of History Blue Ash College, University of Cinicinnati Lucy Eldersveld Murphy. Great Lakes Creoles: A French-Indian Community on the Northern Borderlands,…

  • The Mysteries of New Orleans

    A lost classic of America’s neglected German-language literary tradition, “The Mysteries of New Orleans” by Baron Ludwig von Reizenstein first appeared as a serial in the Louisiana Staats-Zeitung, a New Orleans German-language newspaper, between 1854 and 1855.

  • Great Lakes Creoles: A French-Indian Community on the Northern Borderlands, Prairie du Chien, 1750–1860

    Great Lakes Creoles: A French-Indian Community on the Northern Borderlands, Prairie du Chien, 1750–1860 Cambridge University Press September 2014 326 pages 25 b/w illus. 6 maps 7 tables 236 x 157 x 22 mm Hardback ISBN: 9781107052864 Paperback ISBN: 9781107674745 eBook ISBN: 9781139990660 Lucy Eldersveld Murphy, Professor of History Ohio State University, Newark A case…

  • Results of the 2016 Election

    Results of the 2016 Election American Sociological Association Washington, D.C. 2016-06-07 Eduardo Bonilla-Silva, Duke University, has been elected the 109th President of the American Sociological Association (ASA). Christopher Uggen, University of Minnesota, has been elected Vice President. Bonilla-Silva and Uggen will assume their respective offices in August 2017, following a year of service as President-elect…

  • Filling in Gaps in the Historical Record: Accuracy, Authenticity, and Closure in Ann Rinaldi’s Wolf by the Ears

    Filling in Gaps in the Historical Record: Accuracy, Authenticity, and Closure in Ann Rinaldi’s Wolf by the Ears Children’s Literature Volume 44, 2016 pages 21-60 DOI: 10.1353/chl.2016.0018 Brian Dillon, Professor of English Montana State University-Billings Ann Rinaldi, Wolf by the Ears, (New York: Scholastic, 1993). This novel, narrated by Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings’ daughter,…

  • Black Man, White House: An Oral History of the Obama Administration

    Black Man, White House: An Oral History of the Obama Administration William Morrow (an imprint of HarperCollins) 2016-06-07 352 pages Hardcover ISBN: 9780062399793 Ebook ISBN: 9780062399816 6 in (w) x 9 in (h) x 1.09 in (d) D. L. Hughley From legendary comedian D.L. Hughley comes a bitingly funny send-up of the Obama years, as…

  • Bridging Asian and Asian American Studies through Critical Mixed Race

    Bridging Asian and Asian American Studies through Critical Mixed Race UCLA International Institute Asia Institute 2016-05-25 Samantha Fletcher (UCLA 2016) Professor Emma Teng of MIT recently examined mixed-race identities in the U.S., China and Hong Kong as part of the Taiwan Studies Lecture Series of the Asia Institute. UCLA International Institute, May 25, 2016 —…