Mixed Race Studies
Scholarly perspectives on the mixed race experience.
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Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical by Todd Decker (review) Theatre Journal Volume 65, Number 3, October 2013 pages 447-448 DOI: 10.1353/tj.2013.0077 Bethany Wood Show Boat: Performing Race in an American Musical. By Todd Decker. Broadway Legacy series. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013, pp. 238. Todd Decker’s Show Boat: Performing Race in…
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Imperfect Unions: Staging Miscegenation in U.S. Drama and Fiction by Diana Rebekkah Paulin (Green-Rogers review) Theatre Journal Volume 65, Number 2, May 2013 pages 304-306 DOI: 10.1353/tj.2013.0048 Martine Kei Green-Rogers, Post Doctorate Fellow University of Utah Imperfect Unions: Staging Miscegenation in U.S. Drama and Fiction by Diana Paulin is a multidisciplinary examination of how fictionalized…
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Passing Strange: Shakespeare, Race, and Contemporary America by Ayanna Thompson (Klett review) Theatre Journal Volume 65, Number 2, May 2013 pages 303-304 DOI: 10.1353/tj.2013.0043 Elizabeth Klett, Assistant Professor of Literature University of Houston, Clear Lake Ayanna Thompson’s exciting book analyzes a wide variety of sites for performing, interrogating, and dismantling Shakespeare and race in contemporary…
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The Amalgamation Waltz: Race, Performance, and the Ruses of Memory (review) Theatre Journal Volume 63, Number 1 (March 2011) pages 136-138 E-ISSN: 1086-332X; Print ISSN: 0192-2882 Douglas A. Jones Jr. Stanford University Although the election of a mixed-race president signaled to many the beginning of the end of the problem of the color line, the…