In recent years, though, the NEA attempted to shift the focus away from Dr. Tuesday marks the annual Read Across America Day, an event started by the National Education Association in 1998 to promote reading-and purposefully aligned with Geisel’s birthday, March 2. Seuss in general, have been a centerpiece in American elementary classrooms for decades. Another, And to Think That I Saw It on Mulberry Street, also portrays stereotypes of Asians, including an illustration of a man with a bowl of rice, a conical hat, and slanted eyes captioned, “a Chinese man who eats with sticks.”
One of the books being pulled from publishing, If I Ran the Zoo, includes stereotyped caricatures of African people and references “helpers who all wear their eyes at a slant” in describing Asian people. Seuss in the classroom, including claims that images in The Cat in the Hat draw from minstrel shows, in 2017. Education Week wrote about the controversy surrounding reading Dr.
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