race + women

• Loomba - the central conflict of the play is the “racism of a white patriarchy and the threat posed to it by both a black man and a white woman”
• Loomba - “The real tragedy of the play lies in the fact that these hierarchies are not external to the pair”
• Loomba - Necessary fragility of an ‘unnatural’ relationship”
• Loomba - “Othello becomes a victim of racial beliefs precisely because he becomes an agent of misogynist ones”
• Loomba - “As Othello falls victim to racism, Desdemona falls victim to him”