- Othello is on the standard curriculum of most high schools. Also heavily examined in Universities in a post-colonial context.

- Brabanzio startled @ news that O and D were "making the beast with two backs," and attacks O with his men.

- Up until O's introduction he is never referred to by name: "he", "him", "the thick lips", and "the Barbary horse."

- Iago presents the senator (B) with the image of a barbarous Moor (native of Africa) whose bestial sexual appetite has turned him into a thief and rapist.

- Accusations from B that O used magic to seduce his daughter - how else could D be attracted to O without witchcraft?

- The play, however does not present all that many aspects of racist thinking. The fear of cultural dilution is inherent in Brabanzio's character, much like it is in Billie's character in Harlem Duet. However, Iago's dislike for Othello seems mostly based on power struggles, and Roderigo's seems to be based on jealousy for the fair Desdemona.

- By having Othello as a Moor, however, Shakespeare is able to construct a physical trait which seems to parallel his role within the play - that of the outsider.

- The play deals, at its core with the concept of integration of two races. This can be seen in Billie's father, "Canada", whom she resents. Canada, the country is integrated, and the problems posed by such integration, such as dilution of culture, or the emergence of racist thinking, are addressed within the play.

- Geographical evidence to back up this concept of cultural dilution is the fact that Columbia University is set in the middle of Harlem (acres of white culture in the middle of a predominantly black community, and the site of a great black cultural movement in the 1950's).

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