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Feb 24 2009

5 SHADES OF PINK

Posted by Jean in General Notes

in cooperation with

THE GRADUATE ASSOCIATION OF RHETORIC AND PERFORMANCE STUDIES

presents

5 SHADES OF PINK

by Melissa J. Edwards, Class of 2009

A Graduate Thesis Performance Exploring Biracial Identity in the 19th Century

The 5 Shades of Pink: A Coerced Identity 

explores the influences of the 1859 play The Octoroon by Dion Boucicault, miscegenation laws, and the U.S. Census on biracial identity. All these factors are used in the analysis of the racial identity of Sally Maria Diggs, a 9-year-old girl whose freedom was purchased by the congregation of Plymouth Church, Brooklyn, through the efforts of the Reverend Henry Ward Beecher and his associates. The performance is intended to educate and present the theories of social impact on racial identity while providing historical fact and content.

This event is free and open to the public.

Thursday, March 19, 2009

7:30 p.m.

Monroe Lecture Center Theater

California Avenue, South Campus

For more information, please call the Hofstra Cultural Center at  (516) 463-5669

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