Also, wouldn't "moor", to Elizabethan audiences, have been more likely to denote Othello's religious & cultural background as other, rather than his skin color?
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Othello's skin color was a large component of his character. Othello's different skin color was a metaphor of how different he was from the other characters.
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I see another thing these folks can’t help themselves but to do, but it should be noted that nobody is having this conversation to discredit the enlightenment, especially on the left. It’s being done to explain how systems of power originate/develop.
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Yeah, they are. The point is to discredit precisely the best parts of the Enlightenment
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That’s a stretch. Those Jim Crow laws post date the Enlightenment, don’t you think?
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No, many of them started in 1600s and 1700s, during age of discovery & Enlightenment
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And, you know, he wasn't a lifelong slave because of it
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This is how Iago described Othello's sexual relationship with Desdemona to Desdemona's father, "Even now, now, very now, an old black ram Is tupping your white ewe. " The hostility towards Othello was racism not xenophobia.
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Winthrop Jordan covered this in White Over Black. Blackness as different and problematic goes back before the early modern period. Black as a distinct race inferior to whites emerges with the age of exploration and the development of the Atlantic slave trade.
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