![]() ![]() ![]() Most are minor, but "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street" is a Dr. Seuss Enterprises looks less like a pure business decision than an attempt to protect its brand from hostile activism by sacrificing a few titles. Seuss’s legacy - even though the date is his birthday. This effort has led the National Education Association to uncouple Read Across America Day from Dr. The campaign began with a 2017 paper by anti-racism activist Katie Ishizuka which not only ignores Geisel’s anti-racist work but reads racism even into such beloved classics as "The Cat in the Hat." (Such readings are often based on distortion: Thus, Ishizuka claims there’s a racist subtext in the book’s sequel when the mischievous Cat smears the narrator’s house with ink, without mentioning that the ink is pink.) Yet today, the withdrawal of the six books comes amid a larger push to stigmatize Dr. Later, he was a strong voice for human equality, an author whose books are still used in anti-racism curricula. During World War II, he became a ferocious critic of both anti-Semitism and anti-Black racism - but also drew racist propaganda cartoons vilifying Japanese-Americans (which he eventually regretted). Some of his cartoons in the 1920s reflected the era’s casual racism and anti-Semitism. Theodor Seuss Geisel, who died 30 years ago at 87, had a complicated history. Seuss himself later made changes.) In other cases, the "problematic" language is "Eskimo" - offensive to some indigenous activists - and "a Japanese." (The original edition gave him yellow skin and a pigtail Dr. "And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street" (1937) shows a Chinese man in traditional Chinese garb with a rice bowl and chopsticks. Are they? In one case, yes: "If I Ran the Zoo," first published in 1950, has an image of two Africans that can only be described as a racist caricature and refers to Asians with "eyes at a slant." But the rest is quite innocuous. ![]()
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