Anti-Racist Shakespeare

This Element argues that Shakespeare is a productive site to cultivate an anti-racist pedagogy. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

Ambereen Dadabhoy (Author), Nedda Mehdizadeh (Author)

9781009001328, Cambridge University Press

Paperback / softback, published 9 February 2023

75 pages
17.8 x 12.7 x 0.5 cm, 0.104 kg

Anti-Racist Shakespeare argues that Shakespeare is a productive site to cultivate an anti-racist pedagogy. Our study outlines the necessary theoretical foundations for educators to develop a critical understanding of the longue durée of racial formation so that they can implement anti-racist pedagogical strategies and interventions in their classrooms. This Element advances teaching Shakespeare through race and anti-racism in order to expose students to the unequal structures of power and domination that are systemically reproduced within society, culture, academic disciplines, and classrooms. We contend that this approach to teaching Shakespeare and race empowers students not only to see these paradigms but also to take action by challenging and overturning them. This title is also available as Open Access on Cambridge Core.

1. Why an Anti-Racist Shakespeare?
2. Shakespeare's Racial Invisibility
3. Conceptualizing and Designing an Anti-Racist Shakespeare Course
4. Building Shakespearean Communities
5. The Salience of Shakespeare
6. The Ongoing Work of Anti-Racist Shakespeares.

Subject Areas: Literary studies: general [DSB]