Smart People by Lydia R Diamond
In Smart People, Lydia R. Diamond shows that no matter how well we think we understand the influence of race on human interaction, it still manages to get in the way of genuine communication and connection. This funny and thought-provoking play gives us four characters all associated with Harvard: a young African American actress cleaning houses and doing odd jobs to pay the bills until her recently earned M.F.A. starts to pay off; a Chinese and Japanese American psychology professor studying race and identity in Asian American women; an African American surgical intern; and a white professor of neuroscience with a shocking hypothesis, researching the way that our racial perceptions are formed. As their relationships evolve, the four discover that their motivations and interpretations are not as pure as their wealth of knowledge would have them believe. As in all of her work, Diamond brings a sharp wit and a subtle intelligence to bear on questions that never cease to trouble us as individuals and as a society.Lydia R. Diamond is a Huntington Playwriting Fellow and a resident playwright at Chicago Dramatists. Harriet Jacobs premiered at Steppenwolf and was developedand presented at The Kennedy Center's New Visions New Voices festival. Her other plays include Stage Black, The Gift Horse, Stick Fly, Voyeurs de Venus, and The Inside, which was published in TriQuarterly. A multiple nominee for Joseph Jefferson and Black Theater Alliance awards, Diamond's adaptation of Toni Morrison's The Bluest Eye won the Black Arts Alliance Image Award for Best New Play. Northwestern University Press previously published Stick Fly (2008), and The Gift Horse is anthologized in Northwestern's 7 Black Plays: The Theodore Ward Prize for African American Playwriting (2004). A graduate of Northwestern University, Diamond has taught playwriting at Columbia College Chicago, DePaul University, Loyola University, and Boston University.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780810134645 |
| ISBN 10 | 0810134640 |
| Title | Smart People |
| Author | Lydia R Diamond |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Northwestern University Press |
| Year published | 2016-12-15 |
| Number of pages | 120 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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