Yale professor of African American studies attacks Gershwin’s <em>Porgy and Bess </em>as “white supremacist” and “misogynist”

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Yale professor of African American studies attacks Gershwin’s <em>Porgy and Bess </em>as “white supremacist” and “misogynist”

Exposing the alleged racism of the opera and its creators—George and Ira Gershwin and Dubose Heyward—has become a preoccupation of the postmodernist proponents of “critical race theory” and related obsessions with gender, sexual preference and other aspects of personal identity.