.@DrDadabhoy describes an amazing assignment searching for key words about race in Shx, and how we can see what they produce is a picture of whiteness: "It is not about establishing any truth-claim about non-whiteness"
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Vastauksena käyttäjille @HamletHologram ja @DrDadabhoy
Interested in hearing more about this assignment! I do one w/Othello where students have to find all the euphemisms for Othello’s blackness and then we compare to the images used to describe Michael Brown by the officer who murdered him. It’s... a lot.
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Other than letting them opt out I haven’t figured out how to best protect black students from the violence of digging into those images (though in general BIPOC students express satisfaction & even relief at calling out Shakespeare’s racism & ongoing consequences of these images
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Vastauksena käyttäjille @janetwerther ja @HamletHologram
I don’t think you need images of lynchings to teach race in Shakespeare or race logics in the period. I’m also not sure how effective they are to talk about representation. The work can be done without those dehumanizing images.
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Vastauksena käyttäjille @DrDadabhoy ja @HamletHologram
Point well taken. Just to clarify - I do not show actual images. But we compare the language used to describe blackness in Othello w/the (v similar) language used to dehumanize an unarmed young black man in our contemporary society.
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Vastauksena käyttäjille @janetwerther ja @HamletHologram
I certainly think it’s important to consider how the stereotypes Shakesoeare helps to establish contribute to the demonization of Black life. I also think that police brutality, state violence, and US white terror don’t need to be explained through Shakespeare.
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Vastauksena käyttäjille @DrDadabhoy ja @HamletHologram
Fair. I don’t think they do, either. My (all?) teaching is of course a work in progress, but I still think it’s valuable to use the theatrical canon to interrogate representation & its material effects. Will be continuing to think on this.
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I don’t disagree and there’s lots of scholarship on that. I also think we have to be attentive to trauma we can cause in the classroom as well. Ayanna Thompson’s book in Race and Torture is a good start. Good luck!
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