Carrie J. Preston is the Arvind and Chandan Nandlal Kilachand Professor and Director of Kilachand Honors College, Professor of English and Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, and the founding Associate Director of the Center on Forced Displacement at Boston University. She is the author of Modernism's Mythic Pose: Gender, Genre, & Solo Performance and Learning to Kneel: Noh, Modernism, & Journeys in Teaching.

Complicit Participation is heartfelt and revealing of the author's perspective.

• Part I The Troubling Pleasures of Complicit Participation Introduction Chapter 1: Blackfaced at The Blacks: Complicit Participation in Jean Genet's Lessons on Race Part II The Melodramatics of American Racism Chapter 2: Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon and the Loudly Immersed Audiences of Nineteenth-Century Melodramas Chapter 3: Hissing, Bidding, and Lynching at Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's An Octoroon Part III Dueling on Broadway Chapter 4: Shuffle Along . . . the Campaign Trail Chapter 5: Hamilton ParticiNation in Diversity and Its Discontents Part IV Act II or Just Another Talkback? Chapter 6: Doing Time in Anna Deavere Smith's Act II Chapter 7: Playing The White Card with Claudia Rankine Coda

Carrie J. Preston is the Arvind and Chandan Nandlal Kilachand Professor and Director of Kilachand Honors College, Professor of English and Women's, Gender, & Sexuality Studies, and the founding Associate Director of the Center on Forced Displacement at Boston University. She is the author of Modernism's Mythic Pose: Gender, Genre, & Solo Performance and Learning to Kneel: Noh, Modernism, & Journeys in Teaching.

Complicit Participation is heartfelt and revealing of the author's perspective.

• Part I The Troubling Pleasures of Complicit Participation Introduction Chapter 1: Blackfaced at The Blacks: Complicit Participation in Jean Genet's Lessons on Race Part II The Melodramatics of American Racism Chapter 2: Dion Boucicault's The Octoroon and the Loudly Immersed Audiences of Nineteenth-Century Melodramas Chapter 3: Hissing, Bidding, and Lynching at Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's An Octoroon Part III Dueling on Broadway Chapter 4: Shuffle Along . . . the Campaign Trail Chapter 5: Hamilton ParticiNation in Diversity and Its Discontents Part IV Act II or Just Another Talkback? Chapter 6: Doing Time in Anna Deavere Smith's Act II Chapter 7: Playing The White Card with Claudia Rankine Coda