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How To Read Now by Elaine Castillo

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“[…] stories that often ultimately reduce communities of color to their most traumatic episodes, thus creating a dynamic in which predominantly white American readers expect books by writers of color to “teach" them specific lessons--about historical trauma, far-flung wars, their own sins -while the work of predominantly white writers gets to float, palely, in the culture, unnamed, un-marked, universal as oxygen.”

Jenn Feb 19, 2024

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