Category: Slavery

  • AN OCTOROON: THE OCTOROON an essay by James Leverett The Soho Repository New York, New York 2014-04-01 James Leverett, Professor (Adjunct) of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism Yale School of Drama There is melodrama in every tragedy, just as there is a child in every adult.” –Eric Bentley, Life of the Drama A Suggested Walk I…

  • What is Dion Boucicault’s THE OCTOROON? The Soho Repository New York, New York 2014-03-17 James Leverett, Professor (Adjunct) of Dramaturgy and Dramatic Criticism Yale School of Drama Professor of Dramatic Criticism James Leverett from The Yale School of Drama joins us in this video to give context and background to Dion Boucicault’s 1859 melodrama The…

  • Old Times There Are Not Forgotten The New York Times 2014-05-04 Ben Brantley, Chief Theater Critic ‘An Octoroon,’ a Slave-Era Tale at Soho Rep Some people are paralyzed by self-consciousness. The playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins is inspired, energized and perhaps even set free by it. You could say that he transforms self-consciousness into art, except then…

  • Go Stand Upon The Rock with Samuel Michael Lemon, Ed.D. Research at the National Archives and Beyond BlogTalk Radio Thursday, 2014-11-20, 21:00 EST (Friday, 2014-11-21, 02:00Z) Bernice Bennett, Host Go Stand Upon the Rock (2014) is a deeply moving Civil War-era novel based on stories handed down by Sam Lemon’s grandmother about the lives of…

  • The Case for Black With a Capital B The New York Times 2014-11-18 Lori L. Tharps, Associate Professor of Journalism Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania PHILADELPHIA — I WAS sitting in my office at Temple University when I overheard an exchange between a colleague and his student. The student had come to see her professor to…

  • Sesquicentennial Event Addresses Colorado Inequality Clarion: The University of Denver’s Newwspaper Since 1892 Denver, Colorado 2014-10-21 Carissa Cherpes DU hosted a Sesquicentennial Conversation entitled Miscegenation Law, Marriage Equality, and the West 1864-2014 on Oct. 15 in the Sturm College of Law. Over 50 students, faculty and others gathered to listen to three panelists lecture on…

  • ‘William Wells Brown,’ by Ezra Greenspan The New York Times Sunday Book Review 2014-11-14 Nell Irvin Painter, Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita Princeton University Greenspan, Ezra, William Wells Brown: An African American Life (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2014) If the publishing industry reflects the American zeitgeist, things have changed when it…

  • Matthew McConaughey & Gary Ross Mount Civil War Saga; Bob Simonds’ STX In Talks To Finance Deadline Hollywood 2014-11-05 Mike Fleming Jr., Film Editor Anita Busch, Film Editor EXCLUSIVE: Matthew McConaughey and writer-director Gary Ross are the catalysts for a project called Free State Of Jones, which is getting some serious attention from STX Entertainment,…

  • The Ethics and Mores of Race: Equality after the History of Philosophy Rowman & Littlefield July 2011 216 pages Size: 6 3/4 x 9 1/2 Hardback ISBN: 978-1-4422-1125-4 eBook ISBN: 978-1-4422-1127-8 Naomi Zack, Professor of Philosophy University of Oregon Preeminent philosopher, Naomi Zack, brings us an indispensable work in the ethics of race through an…

  • A Letter and the Legacy of “Not White” in the USA Nursing Clio: Because the Personal is Historical 2014-11-04 Adam Turner, Co-founder and Technical Editor With the events of the past months, and as Austin McCoy discussed here on Nursing Clio last week, it should be clear that white privilege is still alive and well…