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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]It’s interesting, I was in AP English through HS or college and Shakespeare did not make a difference in my life other than it was interesting for me to think about and read.

I promise Shakespeare isn’t the only author who helps student’s comprehension. The fact that there is a whole thread on this is a testament to white privilege.

And yes, I am bringing race into it because once again, you fail to see how complaining about this makes you look. Mostly not that it was asked but the ignorant comments alluding to teaching about black, brown, Asian, native people is ‘too political.’

And we live in a politically charged world, everything is actually about politics. So yes there will be more and more minority authors studied that YOU, old white mom, may not have studied and that’s ok.

Your child will not fall into a cesspool of illiteracy and lack critical thinking.

Also who says Shakespeare isn’t being studied? I graduated from walls less than 5 years ago and I did study Shakespeare. [/quote]

You are absolutely correct. Everything is politically charged. Shakespeare thought so, as well. Othello is partly written in response to Queen Elizabeth I’s edict in 1601 to deport all “blackamoors” to Spain and Northern Africa. People in Elizabethan England were already conditioned to think of images of blackness as associated to sin and evil. Shakespeare explores these stereotypes in the play, and the villain is actually a white man: Iago.

That being said, I do agree with you that students should read a wide variety of authors, especially minority authors. [/quote]

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