There's still a skepticism of race in Shakespeare. That Blackness as produced by a white culture, and explore and expose it for the limitations it places on real people of culture in history and today. 4/ #ShakeRace
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Lynch asks about "We are Othello," in special issue of SQ edited by
@ProfKFH. I, [AD] would add, that#ShakeRace is not a new field. 15/Näytä tämä ketju -
Smith notes Hamlet's ultimate white privilege in getting a military funeral. Othello, a military man does not get that. We have to ask ourselves where we stand in relation to Othello's isolation. Othello is stamped by his Blackness. Iago has the mobility of whiteness. 16/
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Time for Q&A: Specific examples of ways to look at race in Shakespeare's texts. Smith: sonnets, "from fairest beauty," whiteness is there, it is imbricated with notions of beauty. The Shakespeare persona constructed as blackness in contrast to the whiteness of beloved. 17/
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The direst hand, darkened hand, the darkening is related to the blackening of actors on the stage to play Moors. Question: how does the racial makeup of your class affect how you teach; We're socialized to teach Shakespeare as a white object regardless of student demographics 18/
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We're all taught to read as white readers. Cites Morrison. Like Shakespeare we're all positioned as white. White positioning is what we have to navigate. 19/
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Casting q: is it important for characters to be racially accurate? ans: it depends on the production or we might cast more conceptually in order to directly address race. 20/
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Read Ian Smith's work, folks! It is


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