This episode explores how understanding the origins of racial discourses in the early modern period is valuable to our understanding of race and racism today.

Works cited.

Brown, D. S. (n.d.). "Is Black so Base a Hue?": Black Life Matters in Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus (pp. 137–155). essay.

Dadabhoy, Ambereen. “Barbarian Moors: Documenting Racial Formation in Early Modern England.” The Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare and Race, 2021, pp. 30–46.

Shakespeare, W. (2017). Titus Andronicus. (R. McDonald, Ed.). Penguin Books.

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