Subject: erasure
From: Matt Kozusko (mkozusko@parallel.park.uga.edu)
Date: Sun Jan 23 2000 - 23:38:25 EST
AntiUtopia@aol.com wrote:
> Well, yeah, but I was speaking of the world outside the play... :)
>
> Come on, earn your keep and talk about the economics behind the play
I hope I made it clear in my first post to the thread that anti-semitism
can be racism. But in this play, the more felicitous term for the
phenomenon of discrimination practiced by the Christians on the Jews is
"anti-semitism." Perhaps it helps my point that the same sort of
discrimination, practiced in the other direction by the Jews against the
Christians, is not exactly "racism," either.
Othello, on the other hand, is maligned by Brabantio more on account of
his racial background than his religious background. There's your racy
play.
What, incidentally, am I to do with students who refer to Othello as an
"African-American"?
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