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The Play ‘Anne and Emmett’ raise the ghosts of injustice The Bay State Banner April 17, 2008 — Vol. 43, No. 36 in a story by Erin Washington reported " ‘Anne and Emmett’ raise the ghosts of injustice" and that "In the play, Frank and Till find many similarities in the slights that are part of their heritage. Both come from ethnic groups that suffered through slavery — the Jews, as told in the Bible, as the laborers of Egyptians, and blacks for hundreds of years in the United States. Both have been forced to live in ghettos — blacks in 20th century urban America, and Jews dating back past the Nazi occupation to the first ghetto, instituted in 1516 in Venice. Pre-1950s caricatures of Jews bearing horns and blacks having tails suggest a devilish or animalistic view of both minority groups, depictions of them as evil and worthy of hate." |
