Andrew Porwancher is uncomfortable drawing comparisons between himself and Lin-Manuel Miranda, the creator of the musical “Hamilton,” which returns to the Benedum Center on Feb. 23 and runs through March 13. “I’m hesitant to say that Lin-Manuel Miranda and I are engaged in a collective endeavor of reimagining the story [of Alexander Hamilton] from a minority perspective because I don’t want to cast myself in the same league as one of the creative geniuses of our time,” Porwancher said. And yet both Porwancher, a historian and author, and Miranda have found new ways to chronicle the journeys of minorities in...