In The Story of King Shahryar we got to see some of the most obvious and outspoken racism of anything we’ve read up to this point. What makes this even more unusual is it is not Europeans being racist but instead Middle Easterners hating Africans.
Furthermore, though there were examples and hints of it in Othello this book comes right out and makes direct comparison between a moor and an animal. The depiction of the “blackamoor” in this work removes all humanity from it leaving behind only a creature driven solely by base instincts. It surprised me that throughout the story the kings never hated them as much as any of the other parties involved, this just really reinforced the idea that they were little more than animals in the eyes of the kings.
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