I also didn't recognize the works cited, I support the decision regardless. I didn't really have an expansive Dr. Seuss library growing up outside of 4 or so books. My "library" was whatever hand me downs I got from a few older cousins.
I think in the context of academia for a certain age that I'm not qualified to select, books and short stories with offensive material should remain. The onus is on the educator to present the work with the heads up, "Look, the words you're going to encounter are NOT okay..." basically the university version of "reflective of a different time." But I am saying this from a place of never been discriminated against, never had to suffer the attacks behind some of those words, I could be way off base on this stance. My only single discussion with a non-Caucasian friend about those works was when a Black colleague was going over English notes with me after she read "A Good Man is Hard To Find" by Flannery O'Connor and she was taken aback by the character of the Grandma using the big no no word in an in story anecdote. She shared with me that while she hated seeing the word, she knew it was unavoidable that she'd run into it from time to time in college, she wished the professor would have at least gave a heads up. I can't sit here and say this one single conversation should dictate procedure for all of literary history. But that relationship, our friendship and working relationship, helped shape me and my appreciation for the experiences of others that I never had to face myself when I was still at an immature point in my life.
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