Those interested in Critical Race Theory, Shakespeare, and Teaching will want to investigate two videos in the Folger Institute’s Critical Race Conversations series: https://www.youtube.com/user/FolgerLibrary/featured.

In July, these two free events addressed how college faculty can and should integrate critical race studies into their Shakespeare and early modern literature classrooms. Watch the captioned video recordings of Ambereen Dadabhoy (Harvey Mudd College) and Nedda Mehdizadeh (UCLA) on “Cultivating an Anti-Racist Pedagogy,” and David Sterling Brown and Jennifer L. Stoever (Binghamton University) on “The Sound of Whiteness, or Teaching Shakespeare’s “Other ‘Race Plays'” in Five Acts.”

“Critical Race Conversations” will resume in September with a session on Race and Empire that Jessica Marie Johnson (Johns Hopkins University) has organized. She has assembled a team of experts on the Americas, Europe, and the African continent, including Cécile Fromont (Yale University) and Robin Mitchell (Cal State Channel Islands). Further details on the fall slate of “Critical Race Conversations” will appear on the Folger Institute’s webpage soon.

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