Course Description

Instructor: David Sterling Brown

Renowned speaker and author, Dr. David Sterling Brown, will be sharing insights from his new book, Shakespeare's White Others (Cambridge University Press). Brown’s work covers topics including anti-blackness, gender, (homo)sexuality, trauma, mental health, and more.

Examining the racially white 'others' whom Shakespeare creates in characters like Richard III, Hamlet and Tamora – figures who are never quite 'white enough' – this bold and compelling work emphasises how such classification perpetuates anti-Blackness and re-affirms white supremacy. David Sterling Brown offers nothing less here than a wholesale deconstruction of whiteness in Shakespeare's plays, arguing that the 'white other' was a racialized category already in formation during the Elizabethan era –

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Introduction - Shakespeare's White Others (cambridge.org)