Scholar Daniel Pollack-Pelzner previewed a collection of essays that posited Shakespeare’s works were incremental in constructing “whiteness” in culture.
Visiting scholar Daniel Pollack-Pelzner penned an article for The Atlantic that suggested that all ofwere about race and helped construct"whiteness" for Western culture.
"White people have for so long been taken as the universal norm in the Western canon that to name them as white is to engage in critical race study. White People posits that Hamlet, Romeo and Juliet, and the sonnets are just as much about race as Othello, because they’re all involved in defining whiteness," Pollack-Pelzner wrote.
"This method of race scholarship often attracts the charge of anachronism—that it’s imposing contemporary categories on the past. That objection tends not to bother me; every era generates its interpretive questions from its own concerns, and an anti-racist approach to Shakespeare is long overdue.
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