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Hall, Kim F. “‘These bastard signs of fair’: Literary Whiteness in Shakespeare’s Sonnets.” In Post-Colonial Shakespeares, edited by Ania Loomba and Martin Orkin, 64-83. New York: Routledge, 1998.
Firmly focused on the aggrandizement of whiteness within early modern poetry, and Shakespeare’s sonnets in particular, this essay considers how these literary works perpetuate the racialization of fairness. In reading fairness as an emergent ideology of white supremacy, Hall makes a sharp connection between whiteness and the trope of privilege that endures far past the early modern period.
