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Midway through Zadie Smith’s novel White Teeth, Irie Jones, daughter of a white Englishman and a black Englishwoman of Jamaican descent, is quizzed about Shakespeare’s sonnets in her London high school English class by her teacher, the “strawberry-mousse” colored Mrs. Moody.
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Schleck, J. (2014). Stranger Than Fiction: Early Modern Travel Narratives and the Antiracist Classroom. In: Attar, K.F., Shutters, L. (eds) Teaching Medieval and Early Modern Cross-Cultural Encounters. The New Middle Ages. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137465726_6
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