Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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- You were either Black or white. To claim whiteness as a mixed child was to deny and hide Blackness. Our families understood that the world we were growing into would seek to denigrate this part of us and we would need a community that was made up, always and already, of all shades of Blackness.
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Day: November 23, 2014
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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…
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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…
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Amber Gray on ‘An Octoroon,’ at Soho Rep
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Racial divide: It’s a social concept, not a scientific one The Washington Post 2014-11-03 Nancy Szokan Most scientists agree that race is not a biological concept. As Wikipedia defines it, in an extremely lengthy and extravagantly footnoted entry that surely has been edited and re-edited many times, “Race is a social concept used to categorize…
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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…