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There are titles and there are titles…  There is the title of Shakespeare’s play, The Tragedy of Othello, the Moor of Venice.  But considering who it is who has the vast majority of lines to speak in that play, it seems as though it might more accurately be titled The Triumph of Iago, the Genius Villain of Venice, with Othello, the character, as nothing more than prop or set piece.  “The Moor of Venice” is of itself a title.  Is it a title that the character wears proudly, or one that he is labeled with by others for reasons of their own irrespective of what he would prefer?  And is he the only Moor in Venice?  The title would tend to make it sound as if he is.  And if he is not, how much more of a pejorative does the term become, like “the Chinaman” or “the Jew?”  Then there are titles like “General.”  Are there other “generals?”  And if so, what power precisely does the office hold in the context either wherein it was written or now?  Does the title, General, suggest some sort of societal position of status as well?  Is Othello some form of nobleman, or just a hired soldier with no real power beyond his ability to prosecute military conflicts?  Then there is his name, which is also a title.  Is it his surname or his given name.  Is it actu

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I do not think that I’m an authority on teaching this work in any sense.   I share my experience with the hope that other White teachers in White-dominant contexts might be able to benefit from my thoughts and improve on my approach.

Danielle Peck
English Educator
Grosse Pointe South High School, Grosse Pointe Farms, Michigan

Since the publishing of American Moor by Methuen Drama in the spring of 2020, the embrace by educational institutions across the United States has been extremely exciting.  It is exciting to consider that the structures of White normativity that the play seeks to expose—so compromising of American culture and American-made art—are finding forums for conversation on the high-school level.  On the university level, the play seems to sit at the nexus of several avenues of academic pursuit, be it English, Africana Studies, Theatre Studies, Political Science, Gender Studies, or Critical Race Theory…

Throughout, what educators are discovering is that American Moor, in its unique approach to the issues of endemic American racial bias, seems to sharply reflect practices and behaviors in the lives of those who take it up.  That is to say that the dynamics explored in the play are the same dynamics existing in the classrooms, and in the country at