How to pronounce “hilaire” in English

American literature, excuse me-- so understanding how black voices and blackface created Seuss's "The Cat in the Hat" assists us in desegregating children's literature.Seuss's work is not only heir to the nonsense of Lewis Carroll and Edward Lear and Hilaire Belloc, it's also heir to that of E. W. Campbell in its stereotypesand Langston Hughes in opposing those same stereotypes.