At least, to eliminate him completely from the English literature curriculum for inner city youth and/or people of non-European ethnicity:
Mark you that the call isn’t merely to cast the net widely, to read Shakespeare along with works from different periods and different backgrounds.
No, it’s to jettison Shakespeare altogether, because he’s old and dead and white and difficult.
I can’t think of many more effective ways, academically speaking, to ghettoize young black students and other minorities.
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