Lin-Manuel Miranda’s «Hamilton»: Silenced Women’s Voices and Founding Mothers of Color

Vanessa Vollmann

Lin-Manuel Miranda’s «Hamilton»: Silenced Women’s Voices and Founding Mothers of Color

A Critical Race Theory Counterstory

by Vanessa Vollmann (Author)
©2024, Thesis, 240 Pages
English Studies

Chill and swaggering colorbent Founding Fathers have been blowing away Hamilton audiences since 2015. And there is no doubt that Lin-Manuel Miranda created an artistic monumental vessel of empowerment for people of Color whose stories have been left out. Yet, when we dig deeper into the historical evidence that Hamilton is based on, we come across a treasure trove of questions regarding the women in the musical. Was Angelica really a feminist? What is Theodosia’s connection to the duel? Did Eliza know about her husband’s affair with Maria? Were Alexander and Angelica in love? And why is Sally voiceless as the one character who is based on a person of Color? These questions are explored using a Critical Race Theory intersectional lens as well as feminist and anti-racist scholarship.

Cover
Title
Copyright
About the author
About the book
This eBook can be cited
Acknowledgments
Table of Contents
Prologue
1. Introduction
2. The Language: Sexism, Misogynoir, and Race
2.1 Fighting the Tenacity of the Myths
2.2 Critical Race Theory, Critical Race Feminism, and Counterstorytelling
2.3 The Fluidity of Intersectionality: The Specificity of Women-of-Color Identities
3. Bending the White Masculine Norm
3.1 Eliza and Angelica Schuyler and Rachel Faucette Lavien: Coverture, Misogyny, and Misogynoir
3.1.1 Empowerment through Chattel Slavery at the Intersection of Coverture
3.1.2 Misogyny and Misogynoir through Colorbending in Hamilton
3.2 Sally Hemings and Maria Reynolds: A Toxic Triangle in Storytelling
3.2.1 Sally’s Invisibility: The Silencing of Narratives
3.2.2 Sally’s Hypervisibility: The DNA Evidence
3.2.3 Himpathy and The Myth of Thomas Jefferson
3.2.4 The Temptress Maria Reynolds
4. Reimagining the Framer Myth on Broadway: From Honest Abe to Eliza in Hamilton via 1619
4.1 Uncovering the Legacy Part One: At the Intersection of Broadway and The 1619 Project
4.1.1 The Color Line from Ziegfeld to Bernstein
4.1.2 Immigration Laws and 1619
4.2 Angelica: Women of Color Representation at the Intersection of Hair, Rap, Class, and History
4.2.1 Challenging Hair Discrimination
4.2.2 Bending the Rap Genre
4.2.3 The Myth of the Romance between Angelica and Alexander
4.3 Uncovering The Legacy Part Two: At the Intersection of Whiteness and Commercialism
4.4 Theodosia’s Invisibility and Eliza’s Voice: A Founding Mother of Color
4.4.1 Constructing an Invisible Voice of Color
4.4.2 At the Intersection of Sexism and 18th-Century Gossip Culture
4.4.3 Republican Mothers of Color
5. Conclusion
Addendum: A Martinez-Inspired Counterstory about the German Hamilton
Bibliography
Songs
Sources
Series Index

Pages:

240

Year:

2024

ISBN (HARDBACK):

9783631901762 (Forthcoming)

ISBN (EPUB):

9783631901786 (Active)

ISBN (PDF):

9783631901779 (Active)

DOI:

10.3726/b21448

Language:

English

Keywords:

Critical Race Theory, Feminismustheorie, Rassismustheorie, Intersektionalität, BIPOC

Published:

Berlin · Bruxelles · Chennai · Lausanne · New York · Oxford, 2024. 240 pp., 1 fig. b/w

Vanessa Vollmann holds a Ph.D. in American Studies. Her research focuseson voices that have been lost in dominant discourses at the intersection of race and gender. This includes critically investigating blockbuster popular cultural scripts, marginalization in legal structures, and reframing established storytelling of historical events.

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