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invites us to laugh at Ali, a gullible Arab being attacked by hundreds of angry Mt.Strookoo Cuckoos. Dr. Seuss's work is both racist and opposes racism and does both in the same decade.These characters and the cat's minstrel ancestry reveal Seuss's racial unconscious, indicating how his imagination resuscitated and revised early 20th century and 19th century stereotypes.
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