How much of the scholarship on this play has been influenced by statements like this by AR Braunmuller? What about the fact the Elizabeth was actively courting an alliance with Al-Mansur? #ShakeRace
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Thank you for saying this. I love the book you are citing, but I cannot find any evidence for this claim in the play. I honestly thought I was too dense to get it
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Well, just wait for my article then
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Um....?
Kiitos. Käytämme tätä aikajanasi parantamiseen. KumoaKumoa
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I am not an experte on Peele, but I think this idea of "white moors" comes from Leo Africanus (Hasan ibn Mohammed al-Wazan al-Fasi) who in the Pory translation says Africans "are of two kinds, namely white or tawnie Moores, and Negros or blacke Moores."
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It also says that "All the inhabitants of Tefethne [Morocco] are of a most white colour" but suggests that is b/c they have intermarried w/ foreigners. He says children of white and black parents would be "tawnie," which he lumps in with white in his list which we wouldn't do now
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So is it a weird question to wonder how Leo Africanus thought about skin tone and “whiteness”?
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Exactly appropriate because there is colorism and racism in Islamicate societies.
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I was just read Andrew boorde’s introduction to knowledge on ‘barbary’ which talks about white and black moors ... before going on to talk about moors I’m very heavily racialised terms. My sense is that different English authors make pretty different differentiations about ...
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The diversity of the n. African population. Nat cutter has written recently on English news sheets about Barbary and the terminologies they employ.
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