{"id":47974,"date":"2016-06-26T22:00:37","date_gmt":"2016-06-26T22:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=47974"},"modified":"2017-05-28T17:51:43","modified_gmt":"2017-05-28T17:51:43","slug":"playing-with-race-in-the-early-republic-mr-potter-the-ventriloquist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=47974","title":{"rendered":"Playing with Race in the Early Republic: Mr. Potter, the Ventriloquist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1162\/TNEQ_a_00530\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em><strong>Playing with Race in the Early Republic: Mr. Potter, the Ventriloquist<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitpressjournals.org\/loi\/tneq\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">The New England Quarterly<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitpressjournals.org\/toc\/tneq\/89\/2\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">June 2016, Volume 89, Number 2<\/a><br \/>\npages 257-285<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1162\/TNEQ_a_00530\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">10.1162\/TNEQ_a_00530<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Paul_E._Johnson\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Paul E. Johnson<\/strong><\/a>, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of History<br \/>\n<em>University of South Carolina<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The first American-born stage magician and <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Ventriloquism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ventriloquist<\/a> was an African American named <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Richard_Potter_(magician)\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Richard Potter<\/a>. Potter&#8217;s stage career (1811\u20131835) coincided with the transition from an entertainment culture grounded in a metropolitan Atlantic world to an American show business that was nationalist and racist. This essay traces Potter&#8217;s strategies and experiences within that transformation.<\/p>\n<p>Read or purchase the article <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mitpressjournals.org\/doi\/pdf\/10.1162\/TNEQ_a_00530\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The first American-born stage magician and ventriloquist was an African American named Richard Potter. Potter\u2019s stage career (1811\u20131835) coincided with the transition from an entertainment culture grounded in a metropolitan Atlantic world to an American show business that was nationalist and racist. This essay traces Potter\u2019s strategies and experiences within that transformation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,1245,459,8,20],"tags":[24301,24298,24299,18022,24300],"class_list":["post-47974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-biography","category-history","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-new-england-quarterly","tag-paul-e-johnson","tag-paul-johnson","tag-richard-potter","tag-the-new-england-quarterly"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47974","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=47974"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54012,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47974\/revisions\/54012"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=47974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=47974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=47974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}