{"id":290,"date":"2016-11-21T02:32:58","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T02:32:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/?p=290"},"modified":"2016-11-21T02:32:58","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T02:32:58","slug":"students-learning-anything-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/2016\/11\/21\/students-learning-anything-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Students \u2018Learning Anything About Love Here\u2019?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"dropcap\">C<\/span>ritics credit the actor and playwright Anna Deavere Smith with inventing a new form of socially conscious theater. She becomes, through uncanny mimicry, people she has interviewed. Over the past 40 years, the 66-year-old professor at <strong>New York University\u2019s Tisch School of the Arts<\/strong> has won a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.macfound.org\/fellows\/544\/\">MacArthur grant<\/a>, a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gf.org\/fellows\/all-fellows\/anna-deavere-smith\/\">Guggenheim fellowship<\/a>, and other honors for her one-woman productions made up of interviews on a single event or theme \u2014 riots in Crown Heights and Los Angeles, the health-care system, Washington\u2019s political culture. <strong>Arizona State, Princeton, Stanford,<\/strong> and <strong>Yale<\/strong> are among the universities that have commissioned her projects on race, gender, diversity, and listening. You might also know her from roles in films including <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0112346\/\">The American President<\/a> <\/em>or TV series like <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.imdb.com\/title\/tt0200276\/?ref_=nv_sr_1\">The West Wing<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Delivering the 2015 National Endowment for the Humanities\u2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.neh.gov\/about\/awards\/jefferson-lecture\/anna-deavere-smith-lecture-live-stream\">Jefferson Lecture<\/a>, Ms. Smith cited Martin Luther King Jr.\u2019s &#8220;inescapable network of mutuality&#8221;: &#8220;Recognizing our interconnectedness in today\u2019s society may seem difficult,&#8221; she said, &#8220;but we could muster the courage to work for it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Her new work, <em>Notes From the Field<\/em>, now playing at Second Stage Theatre in New York, concerns the school-to-prison pipeline, in which disadvantaged children disproportionately become incarcerated adults. Smith selected 18 monologues from some 250 interviews, and during roughly two hours on stage, she becomes a student, an inmate, a congressman, a nonprofit director, protesters, a pastor, a principal, and more. A central theme of the show is that America needs to make a much greater investment in its children. The evening ends on a bittersweet, hopeful note, with her rendering of Rep. John Lewis recounting moments of forgiveness and grace.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/article\/Are-Students-Learning\/238449\">Read the entire post here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Critics credit the actor and playwright Anna Deavere Smith with inventing a new form of socially conscious theater. She becomes, through uncanny mimicry, people she has interviewed. Over the past 40 years, the 66-year-old professor at New York University\u2019s Tisch School of the Arts has won a MacArthur grant, a Guggenheim fellowship, and other honors&hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/2016\/11\/21\/students-learning-anything-love\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6854,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6854"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":291,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290\/revisions\/291"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dev.blogs.oregonstate.edu\/differencepowerdiscrimination\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}