{"id":20651,"date":"2012-02-29T05:01:41","date_gmt":"2012-02-29T05:01:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=20651"},"modified":"2012-03-01T16:06:18","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T16:06:18","slug":"the-octoroon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=20651","title":{"rendered":"The Octoroon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgetowntheatre.org\/current.html\" target=\"_blank\">The Octoroon<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgetowntheatre.org\" target=\"_blank\">The Georgetown Theatre Company<\/a><br \/>\nNorth, South, Race &amp; Class: A Staged Reading Series of 19th century Plays at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgetowntheatre.org\/gracechurch.html\" target=\"_blank\">Grace Church<\/a><br \/>\n1041 Wisconsin Avenue, NW<br \/>\nWashington, D.C.<br \/>\nWednesday, 2012-02-29, 19:30 EST (Local Time)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.georgetowntheatre.org\/current.html\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.georgetowntheatre.org\/images\/North_South_400.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>The Octoroon<\/em> (by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Dion_Boucicault\" target=\"_blank\">Dion Boucicault<\/a>) was one of the biggest hits of mid-19th century American theatre. It is the story of a beautiful mixed-race girl raised as white; when her father dies in debt, she is sold as property. Like the novel <em><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Uncle_Tom%27s_Cabin\" target=\"_blank\">Uncle Tom\u2019s Cabin<\/a><\/em>, <em>The Octoroon<\/em> sensationalized the peril of a young slave woman at the hands of an evil white man. The play also serves as an apology for aristocratic slave-owners by presenting them as kindly and broad-minded, while the lower-class white characters were depicted as vicious, lecherous immigrants. These stereotypes persisted is Southern literature until well into the 20th century.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Octoroon The Georgetown Theatre Company North, South, Race &amp; Class: A Staged Reading Series of 19th century Plays at Grace Church 1041 Wisconsin Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. Wednesday, 2012-02-29, 19:30 EST (Local Time) The Octoroon (by Dion Boucicault) was one of the biggest hits of mid-19th century American theatre. It is the story of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24,13,8,6462,20],"tags":[1627,9679],"class_list":["post-20651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-dion-boucicault","tag-georgetown-theatre-company"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=20651"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20651\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=20651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=20651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=20651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}