Emory University’s Tarbutton Performing Arts Center recently featured the play “Snowflakes, or Rare White People,” which according to its professor/director is an examination of whiteness as a “paranoid structure.”
The play takes place in 23rd century “Nueva New York” where white people are a federally “protected population.” Two whites are brought to the Hall of Caucasian Peoples as a living exhibit.
Original creator Dustin Chinn notes that a 19-century “Hall of Asian Peoples” exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History is the basis for his play’s premise.