On pedagogy: I don't approach race as being painful, but as opening the door so that we can have a long overdue conversation. I'm looking for racial literacy as an outcome. We cannot graduate students from college who are racially illiterate. 13/
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Race is about a dynamic relationship among and between people. It is an active thing. How can we use Shakespeare to teach these things? It can't be just that I read literature but about what skills have I acquired from this act. 14/
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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. 15/1 vastaus 2 uudelleentwiittausta 12 tykkäystäNäytä 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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Gary Taylor's book "Buying Whiteness" is good though dated (pre-Obama), and I've heard his second Shakespeare book (which I haven't read) is not awful, too.
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Taylor is not a resource I would recommend for #ShakeRace. Along with Smith, @ProfKFH’s Things of Darkness is a necessary primer as are Joyce Green MacDonald’s Women and Race in Early Modern Texts. @Elysabethgrace and Pat Parker’s Women, Race, and Writing, 1/
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Vastauksena käyttäjille @DrDadabhoy, @ZinaNPetersen ja
And Arthur Little Shakespeares Jungle Fever, Ayanna Thompson’s Performing Race and Torture. There’s an immense bibliography.
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Thanks for this. It was millions of years ago in grad school; having been raised In the whitest of red States, my intro to the whole idea was Taylor. He was teaching at CUA when I started there. It's good to know I need to let go of my First Encounter with its false mystique.
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