"seg-book-gation"

Have you read Bernice McFadden's great op-ed in The Washington Post?  If not, get over there now!  Here's just a taste:

…a few select African American authors have "crossed over" into the mainstream — the work of many African Americans authors, myself included, has been lumped into one heap known as "African American literature." This suggests that our literature is singular and anomalous, not universal. It is as if we American authors who happen to be of African descent are not a people but...