New answers tagged race-issues
1
vote
"Chieftain" and Toussaint's ethnicity in Wordsworth's "To Toussaint L'Ouverture"
Toussaint was born as an enslaved person on Saint-Domingue, but rose to become its Governor General.
My reading is that Kaplan thinks it unlikely that Wordsworth would have referred to a white ...
- 18.4k
30
votes
Accepted
Contrasting depictions of Asians in Tintin
Hergé apparently met an art student called Chang Chong-Chen, the same name he gives to the man who saved Tintin in Blue Lotus.
Mark Tweedale at Multiversitycomics.com writes:
Why the change? Well, ...
- 18.4k
Top 50 recent answers are included