http://rabble-6.rabble.ca/taxonomy/term/41182/0 en http://rabble-6.rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/campus-notes/2016/11/queens-students-forced-to-apologize-casting-othello-white-woman- <div class="story-teaser story-teaser-blog"> <div class="body"> <p>As a mixed-race woman of Black heritage, I have always connected deeply to Shakespeare's <em>Othello</em>. For people of colour growing up in a predominantly white nation with a deeply Eurocentric curriculum, non-white characters like Othello are significant because they affirm our existence in literature, and help us articulate our struggles with internalized racism and white supremacy.</p> <p>There are so few instances in Western literature where Black characters are permitted to exist, let alone to exist as multifaceted, sympathetic, and central.&nbsp;<em>Othello</em> is one of the rare texts in the English literary canon to make a Black character its protagonist and to focus on issues of anti-Black racism.</p> <div class="read-more"></div> </div> </div><p><a href="http://rabble-6.rabble.ca/blogs/bloggers/campus-notes/2016/11/queens-students-forced-to-apologize-casting-othello-white-woman-" target="_blank">read more</a></p> Tue, 15 Nov 2016 18:39:24 +0000 Campus Notes 126796 at http://rabble-6.rabble.ca