{"id":42490,"date":"2015-09-01T02:15:19","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T02:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42490"},"modified":"2021-10-25T18:03:41","modified_gmt":"2021-10-25T18:03:41","slug":"dr-seuss-and-racial-passing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42490","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Seuss and Racial Passing"},"content":{"rendered":"

Dr. Seuss and Racial Passing<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

theracetoread: Children’s Literature and Issues of Race<\/a>
\n2015-02-11<\/p>\n

Karen Sands-O\u2019Connor<\/a><\/strong>, Professor
\nEnglish Department
\nBuffalo State, The State University of New York, Buffalo, New York<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
\"\"<\/a>
\nA Star-Belly Sneetch\u2019s worst fear: that we might not be able to tell \u201cthem\u201d from \u201cus\u201d.<\/em><\/small><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

Dr. Seuss<\/a> is one of the most beloved children\u2019s authors in America. He also has a rather mixed record on issues of race and diversity. As a young man, Dr. Seuss wrote and drew for various magazines and college publications. In these, Seuss portrayed Africans and Asians in stereotypical fashion. During World War II<\/a>, Seuss drew some political cartoons which sympathized with African-Americans and Jewish people and others that accused Japanese-Americans of perpetrating acts of sabotage.<\/p>\n

After the war, Seuss\u2019s attitudes changed. These changes in attitude came about, in part, because of his writing commissions. He visited Japan on assignment for Life<\/em> magazine, and saw the devastation caused by the atomic bombs his country dropped. His writing for children also began to take off. Both of these things resulted in a measurable difference in his public attitudes toward racism…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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