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Analyzes the value of Blackening OthelloShakespeare, William within a changing American paradigm from slavery to abolition: which for European Americans elided differences of nation in favor of a unified whitenesswhiteness and for Blacks transitioned them from slave to freedman. His becoming Black, I argue, is not coincidental, but the alignment chronologically with the abolition movement in America participates in the creation of American whiteness. This chapter positions the Blackening of OthelloShakespeare, William as a character within a larger antiblack political project of making racism an individual issue and distracting from its structural implications.

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Time Warp: Who? What? When? Where? Why? Othello is a Black Man

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    2025年

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  • Matthieu Chapman

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Analyzes the value of Blackening OthelloShakespeare, William within a changing American paradigm from slavery to abolition: which for European Americans elided differences of nation in favor of a unified whitenesswhiteness and for Blacks transitioned them from slave to freedman. His becoming Black, I argue, is not coincidental, but the alignment chronologically with the abolition movement in America participates in the creation of American whiteness. This chapter positions the Blackening of OthelloShakespeare, William as a character within a larger antiblack political project of making racism an individual issue and distracting from its structural implications.