Posted on 06/15/2015 9:13:48 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
The Washington Post has published a guest article by a California teacher arguing that American high school students shouldn’t read Shakespeare because he’s a dead, white man.
Dana Dusbiber, who teaches English in Sacramento, says she avoids Hamlet and all the rest because her minority students shouldn’t be expected to study a “a long-dead, British guy” (Dusbiber herself is white). And while Shakespeare is widely regarded as the premier writer of the English language, able to timelessly portray themes central to the human experience, Dusbiber says he only is regarded that way because “some white people” ordained it and he can easily be replaced.
“Why not teach the oral tradition out of Africa, which includes an equally relevant commentary on human behavior?” She suggests. “Why not teach translations of early writings or oral storytelling from Latin America or Southeast Asia other parts of the world? Many, many of our students come from these languages and traditions … perhaps we no longer have the time to study the Western canon that so many of us know and hold dear.”
To bolster her case for dumping the Bard, Dusbiber says that minority students, like those who dominate her own classroom, deserve to study their own cultures rather than being exposed to “Eurocentrism.” But at the same time, she takes the exact opposite position for whites, saying school should be a place for them to explore cultures other than their own.
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wills rolling over in his grave...alternately LAUGHING..and crying
“...they will never learn the lessons that Shakespeare teaches best. “
Like, if you are going to usurp a throne, make sure to kill all the male heirs as well? Oh wait, we’ve got “Game of Thrones” to teach that stuff now :)
So teach Cervantes to the Hispanic kids.
Or would that be tilting at at windmills?
-PJ
No, when White people study (and make use of) other cultures it is considered “cultural appropriation” and considered derivative work of more highly valued cultures’ sacred creations.
Guilty!
DANG!
the seams.....of the Inane-AMerican Mindset....have burst...and the results...are some of the most wildly entertaining albeit utterly psychotic nonsense I have read in decades!!
I saw Romeo and Juliet at the Folgier Shakespeare Theatre in DC in 1986. But I guess I should consider myself lucky, since I have not seen any plays about a couple of dumb, white kids since then.
HOOOOOWWWWWWDY-HOOOO!
Another Trans Am (TransAmerican)
That would be Willy Spearchucker...
> I take it that’s not a line from Shakespeare...?
I don’t know... i’ll have to check...: )
If black students are not taught Shakespeare, who’s going to be Othello in the play?
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I wonder if she “teaches” Howard Zinn—another dead white man. Or was he really black?
That was a brilliant film.
“I sit with Shakespeare, and he winces not. Across the color line I move arm and arm with Balzac and Dumas, where smiling men and welcoming women glide in gilded halls. From out of the caves of evening that swing between the strong-limbed Earth and the tracery of stars, I summon Aristotle and Aurelius and what soul I will, and they come all graciously with no scorn nor condescension. So, wed with Truth, I dwell above the veil. Is this the life you grudge us, O knightly America?”
W.E.B. Du Bois
Shakespeare was white? Okay, just like Santa.
Dana Dusbiber, who teaches English in Sacramento, says she avoids Hamlet and all the rest because her minority students shouldn't be expected to study a "a long-dead, British guy" (Dusbiber herself is white).She should be fired for racism, blackballed, and forced out onto the street. We'd give her a tin cup. Sidebar:
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