Dr. Seuss Racism Controversy Latest
Kaleidoscope
English - July 08, 2021 04:00 - 8 minutes - 7.85 MB - ★★★★★ - 6 ratingsNews Society & Culture racism mental health unifying america transgender greenwood police brutality progress change housing communities of color Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
In this week's Kaleidoscope, we look at the joy or dismay people felt over news that six books by Dr. Seuss will no longer be published over racist and insensitive images. Dr. Seuss Enterprises says books such as "If I Ran the Zoo" portray people - including Blacks and Asians - in ways that are "hurtful and wrong." But many global fans of Dr. Theodor Seuss Geisel's works, such as "The Grinch Who Stole Christmas," are outraged calling it an example of cancel culture run amok. Allison speaks with University of Virginia professor Sylvia Shin Huey Chong - who specializes in American and Asian American studies, what she thinks about this controversy that's been going on for years.
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