‘THE MOOR’S ABUSED BY SOME MOST VILLAINOUS KNAVE, SOME BASE NOTORIOUS KNAVE, SOME SCURVY FELLOW’: LEGAL SPACES, RACIAL TRAUMA AND SHAKESPEARE’S THE TRAGEDY OF OTHELLO, THE MOOR OF VENICE.

The article discusses the socio-psychological and the clinical psychiatric effects of racial trauma on Moors in early modern stage. It discusses a murder case in Texas of an African-American girl Atatiana Jefferson in 2019 by a police officer Dean who resigned police force in 2018, it also discusses how racial injuries affects the perception of the Blackamoor and compares the incident to Shakespeare's Othello, which shows ideas of supremacy by racially traumatizing.