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May 22, 2016 · Place of Birth: Baltimore, Maryland, U.S. Date of Birth: September 18, 1950. Ethnicity: African-American [including Igbo Nigerian, Ivory Coast, Ghana, Angola, Cameroon, Congo, and Senegal], English. Anna Deavere Smith is an American actress, playwright, and professor.
Smith is an alumna of the historic Western High School, an all-girls school. Smith studied acting at Beaver College (now Arcadia University), where she was one of seven African-American women in her class, graduating in 1971. During her college career, she started to identify as Black.
Mar 13, 2018 · March 13, 2018. In 1961, there was a widely held theory among educated Baltimore Negroes, many of whom, like my mother, were teachers or administrators themselves, that if you wanted your children...
Smith was born on September 18, 1950, in Baltimore, Maryland, the first of five children to Anna, an elementary school educator, and Deaver, a coffee merchant. In middle school, she discovered a gift for mimicry; in college, an interest in social justice. As one of only a few African-American students at Beaver College in the 1960s, she ...
Oct 27, 2016 · Anna Deavere Smith, the actor, professor and playwright, discusses race, education and criminal justice.
- Eliza Berman
Feb 11, 2021 · Flipboard. Email. NPR's Mary Louise Kelly talks with actress and writer Anna Deavere Smith about her essay, The Last of the Nice Negro Girls, which is part of The Atlantic's Inheritance...
Dec 13, 2022 · Abstract. As part of her project On the Road: A Search for American Character, African-American playwright and actor Anna Deavere Smith has created theatre pieces that question normative representations of gender, race, ethnicity, class, religion and nationality.
