Reparations: Beyond the Theatre
Sound Theatre presents REPARATIONS by Darren Canady from January 8 to February 2, 2020. Librarians at Seattle Public Library created this list of books, CDs and videos to enhance your experience of the play.
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Reparations for Slavery and the Slave Trade
"This is the first book to offer a transnational narrative history of the financial, material, and symbolic reparations for slavery and the Atlantic slave trade." -- Publisher's copy.
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The Social Life of DNA
"Nelson describes her participant-observation research on black American genetic ancestry testing. For some African Americans, these DNA tests promise authoritative, scientifically based insight into lineages formerly obscured by written records containing minimal information, the fragmentation of families, disruption of orally transmitted history, and the dehumanizing conflation, caused by the slave trade, of hundreds of distinct African ethnicities into a single American race." -- Library Journal.
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Sweet Taste of Liberty
"After being re-enslaved in 1853, [Henrietta] Wood sued unsuccessfully for her freedom. She sued again for reparation of lost wages after the Civil War." -- Library Journal
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We Were Eight Years in Power
Eight essays, including, “The Case for Reparations,” first published in The Atlantic in 2014, mark "roughly the early optimism of Barack Obama's presidency and the 150th anniversary of the end of the Civil War." -- Publisher's Weekly.
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Who We Are and How We Got Here
"Technological advances in genomics and the extraction of ancient DNA have profoundly changed our understanding of human prehistory while resolving many long-standing controversies." Publisher's copy.
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Sound Theatre's REPARATIONS website
Rory’s life is looking like a classic Great Plains dead-end: a job she hates, a sick grandmother who depends on her, and dreams that just can’t seem to materialize. However, a new technology developed to help humans harness the power of their own blood to relive history promises to give Rory the chance to hit a major pay-day. Played out over three time periods, Rory’s quest to uncover and honor the truth of her family’s past has far-reaching effects she could have never imagined.
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