Philip Nel, a professor of English at Kansas State University, is the author of Was The Cat in the Hat Black? The Hidden Racism of Children’s Literature and the Need for Diverse Books. He told the Guardian the six titles by Theodor Geisel, who wrote under the pen name Dr Seuss, published between 1937 and 1976, which Dr Seuss Enterprises said it would cease printing, contained stereotypes of a clearly racist nature. “Dr Seuss Enterprises has made a moral decision of choosing not to profit from work with racist caricature in it and they have taken responsibility for the art they are putting into the world and I would support that,” Nel said.
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