Jonathan Franzen's answer on race: "I don't have very many black friends." I honestly doubt he even has one.pic.twitter.com/pn5ewWOH3v
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Then again, Franzen HAS written about people of color. And it's horrifying -- full of stereotypes and skin color fixation. @IChotiner
Have you read Twenty-Seventh City? It's racist. It's a racist plot. And the way he describes people of color is racist. @IChotiner
Haven't read it but know it's based on his hometown St Louis. Interesting he grew up in a black city and has no black friends...
made what up
White people made up race. Pulled it out of thin air to create an unjustified system of hierarchy where they're always on top. @IChotiner
From Eliot and Mather's Bay Psalm Book to Franzen's Purity, American Literature is and always has been about race. It's the American genre.
That society at large sees white ppl as not having race (or ethnicity) perpetuates idea that non-whites are "other."
I don't understand. Race is not real, but racism is pervasive
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