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" 'An Octoroon' was written over about three years but premiered in 2014. I'm writing about America's relationship to its own history. Race or not, it's a story about suppression and oppression and many populations being devalued systematically. "

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins

History

Relationship

Writing

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" I have a borderline-embarrassing obsession with pop music. "

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Pop Music

Pop

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