{"id":37564,"date":"2014-10-02T02:22:52","date_gmt":"2014-10-02T02:22:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37564"},"modified":"2017-02-22T21:24:50","modified_gmt":"2017-02-22T21:24:50","slug":"in-a-new-play-adrienne-dawes-delves-into-racial-identity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37564","title":{"rendered":"In a new play, Adrienne Dawes delves into racial identity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mystatesman.com\/news\/entertainment\/arts-theater\/in-a-new-play-adrienne-dawes-delves-into-racial-id\/nhYj7\/#abe7f1e6.257297.735507\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>In a new play, Adrienne Dawes delves into racial identity<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mystatesman.com\" target=\"_blank\">Austin American-Statesman<\/a><br \/>\nAustin, Texas<br \/>\n2014-10-01<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mystatesman.com\/staff\/jeanne-claire-van-ryzin\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Jeanne Claire van Ryzin<\/strong><\/a>, Reporter\/Arts Critic<\/p>\n<p>Before the dialogue begins, before the first stage direction is explained, the complexities of race and racial identity percolate up from the script of \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.adriennedawes.com\/plays\/#\/am-i-white\/\" target=\"_blank\">Am I White<\/a>,\u201d a new play by <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Austin,_Texas\" target=\"_blank\">Austin<\/a> writer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adriennedawes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Adrienne Dawes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Take the cast list: \u201cWesley Connor, biracial (<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=5864\" target=\"_blank\">passes<\/a> as white), member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/White_Order_of_Thule\" target=\"_blank\">White Order of Thule<\/a>,\u201d \u201cRyan Cahill, white, member of the <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Aryan_Brotherhood\" target=\"_blank\">Aryan Brotherhood<\/a>\u201d and \u201cJustine Ramos, biracial (could pass as black).\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Ricocheting back and forth in time, seguing into nightmarish scenes played out as a disturbing <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Minstrel_show\" target=\"_blank\">minstrel show<\/a>, \u201cAm I White\u201d tells the story of an imprisoned <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Neo-Nazism\" target=\"_blank\">neo-Nazi<\/a> convicted of plotting terrorist acts who must confront his own mixed-race heritage.<\/p>\n<p>Directed by Jenny Larson, \u201cAm I White\u201d opened Wednesday for a <a href=\"http:\/\/salvagevanguard.org\/productions\/2014\/am-i-white-by\" target=\"_blank\">three-week run<\/a> at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.salvagevanguard.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Salvage Vanguard Theater<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAm I White\u201d is based on the true story of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Leo_Felton\" target=\"_blank\">Leo Felton<\/a>, a white supremacist who hid his own mixed-race identity as the child of a short-lived idealistic Civil Rights-era marriage between a black architect and a white former nun&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mystatesman.com\/news\/entertainment\/arts-theater\/in-a-new-play-adrienne-dawes-delves-into-racial-id\/nhYj7\/#abe7f1e6.257297.735507\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Before the dialogue begins, before the first stage direction is explained, the complexities of race and racial identity percolate up from the script of \u201cAm I White,\u201d a new play by Austin writer Adrienne Dawes.<\/p>\n<p>Take the cast list: \u201cWesley Connor, biracial (passes as white), member of the White Order of Thule,\u201d \u201cRyan Cahill, white, member of the Aryan Brotherhood\u201d and \u201cJustine Ramos, biracial (could pass as black).\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,24,125,8,6462,20],"tags":[17878,18001,18002,18003,6180,18004,18005],"class_list":["post-37564","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-arts","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-adrienne-dawes","tag-austin-american-statesman","tag-jeanne-claire-van-ryzin","tag-jenny-larson","tag-leo-felton","tag-ryan-cahill","tag-wesley-connor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37564","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=37564"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37564\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51795,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37564\/revisions\/51795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37564"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37564"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37564"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}