#ShakeRace @ProfFarahKC on FB live with St. Anne's College Oxford. I'm coveting her office as well as the wisdom she is dropping!
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How occupying space is racialized. What it means to think of a space as diverse from a white perspective. How whiteness deters non-whites from belonging and acceptance in a historically white space.
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The Shakespearean theater is a white space. It should be cosmopolitan and those who work in it think it is, but it is not.
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Dominant assumption about Shakespeare: he was white and his plays were performed by white actors and his audiences were white. The performers, creators, producers are also predominantly white. It's white.
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Drama school training and inclusive practice. How does training apprentice us into whiteness?
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Color blind casting is rooted in systemic racism. It is erasure by telling people that it is a version of "I don't see color." What we need is color conscious casting. Actively drawing attention to the ways race informs relations.
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Pronunciation and language purity allow for racist attacks. "Inability to speak English," is exactly the charge laid at Ira Aldridge in 1824, when he played Othello at Covent Garden.
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