Five ways a white author can mess up on race

UPDATE, July 2013: I have “anonymized” this post. Despite my elaborate justifications below, it kept not feeling right to me to put the book’s author on blast. I don’t know his personal journey. Therefore, I’ve redacted the title, author, and some character names.

Today in the Antiracist Book Club, a coming-of-age novel about a gay white kid, “Jamie,” with a black friend, Juice.

First a word about anonymity. In my previous ABC posts, here and here, I disguised the books I was talking about. Th...