Mark Mazower, of Columbia University, will be at UC on Thursday and Friday, February 27-28. He will give a public lecture at 4 on Thursday entitled "The Greek War for Independence in Global Perspective" and this will take place in the Taft Research Center at One
Many of you in the UC History Community may find this play and discussion forum of
particular interest as it explores racial and class change in an urban
neighborhood that closely parallels similar changes in neighborhoods in
Cincinnati both in the past and the present.
As many of you know, tumultuous neighborhood racial change
occurred in Cincinnati and elsewhere during the 1950s and 1960s. Now, whites
are beginning to move back into some of these neighborhoods, ones that have
been largely black since the middle of last century. The best known of these is
Over-the-Rhine, of course, but less well-known is that this is occurring in
other neighborhoods in the city.
Playhouse in the Park is performing Clybourne Park Jan. 18 - Feb. 16, 2014. Called “ferociously smart” by The New York Times and “uproariously funny” by Entertainment Weekly, Clybourne Park is one of the most acclaimed plays of the decade — winner of the Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award for Best Play. The play is a spin-off of Lorraine Hansberry’s classic “A Raisin in the Sun.” In two acts set 50 years apart, the same Chicago bungalow sits at a volatile intersection of race and real estate, initially in 1959 with its sale to the neighborhood’s first black family and then in 2009 during the first wave of role-reversing gentrification.
Click here for the flyer for the performances.
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