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This sounds very interesting! Do you recommend I try it as a white reader?
Kate wrote: "This sounds very interesting! Do you recommend I try it as a white reader?"
Ah! 💛 Well, the author was a longtime professor, and I think anyone with an ear for the academic can gain something valuable from scholarly voices.
Accordingly, this was very much "textbook"/research reading for me, not something I'd recommend as interesting, necessarily. 😄 I don't do constant deep dives into literature studies in an academic sense because a lot of the works examined can be depressing to me. And, for instance, I'm painfully aware of how often Black people have been called "n---er" and are still called or viewed in that vein by certain folk, so I personally don't need to read much literature that has a lot of that on page, whether it's fiction or nonfiction.
Again, as I gleaned the history and the commentary I was looking for from this book, I also skimmed or skipped over a number of paragraphs for my own mental and emotional sake. 😊
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Kate wrote: "This sounds very interesting! Do you recommend I try it as a white reader?"Ah! 💛 Well, the author was a longtime professor, and I think anyone with an ear for the academic can gain something valuable from scholarly voices.
Accordingly, this was very much "textbook"/research reading for me, not something I'd recommend as interesting, necessarily. 😄 I don't do constant deep dives into literature studies in an academic sense because a lot of the works examined can be depressing to me. And, for instance, I'm painfully aware of how often Black people have been called "n---er" and are still called or viewed in that vein by certain folk, so I personally don't need to read much literature that has a lot of that on page, whether it's fiction or nonfiction.
Again, as I gleaned the history and the commentary I was looking for from this book, I also skimmed or skipped over a number of paragraphs for my own mental and emotional sake. 😊
