Dr. Seuss' racial history draws controversy
Print He was a doctor who made house calls, millions and millions of them, and his unique and wildly popular prescriptions influenced the way generations of children see and understand the world. Now Dr. Seuss is undergoing his own posthumous examination. Twenty-six years after the La Jolla children’s book author died, some of his most beloved creations, including “The Cat in the Hat,” are being re-evaluated because of imagery that some consider racist. The controversy comes amid a longstanding effort to correct a lack of diversity in children’s literature, which is itself part of the...
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