![]() ![]() ![]() At the same time he’s doing powerful anti-racist children’s books, he’s also recycling racist caricature. ![]() Seuss’s career is a great example of the insidiousness of racism. In other words, the Cat is somewhere in between the actively anti-racist work of “Horton Hears a Who!” (1954) and “The Sneetches” (1961, first version published in Redbook in 1953) and the works that recycle stereotypes - “If I Ran the Zoo” (1950), “Scrambled Eggs Super!” (1953), or even “And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street” (1937). Seuss was both speaking out against racism and recycling racist caricature in his books. What makes the Cat so interesting and representative (and suitable for a book title) is that, during the same decade “The Cat in the Hat” was published, Dr.
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