| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 91.2

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White People Do Not Know How to Behave at Entertainments Designed for Ladies & Gentlemen of Colour: William Brown's African & American Theater. By Marvin McAllister. (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003. xii, 239 pp. Cloth, $45.00, ISBN 0-8078-2777-0. Paper, $18.95, ISBN 0-8078-5450-6.)

Every now and then, scholars set out to do more than they should—and succeed. In White People Do Not Know How to Behave at Entertainments Designed for Ladies & Gentlemen of Colour, Marvin McAllister mines cultural theory, performance studies, the social and cultural history of the Americas, and a bit of biography to reinterpret the legacy of the theatrical pioneer William Alexander Brown and his ephemeral Manhattan retreat. Late in the summer of 1821, Brown founded his first pleasure garden, which the Euro-American press labeled the African Grove; in the summer of 1823, Brown retired after a string of devastating assaults on his enterprises and performers.

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