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How racism in Seuss books can teach young readers about history and context – Sydney Morning Herald
The beloved children’s author has not been “cancelled”, but the withdrawal of six of his books is an opportunity to inform children about the many stories that…
Similarly, in the first edition of Roald Dahls Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, the Oompa-Loompas are African pygmies who have been rescued by Willy Wonka and enslaved in his factory. When Charlie says, But there must be people working there, Grandpa Joe responds, Not people, Charlie. Not ordinary people, anyway.
In his political cartoons, which appeared in a New York newspaper in the early 1940s, Dr Seuss ran the gamut of racist depictions, from African-American people as monkeys to Japanese…
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