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4.54 AVERAGE
4.54 AVERAGE
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Borde läsas i skolan och diskuteras. Tillsammans dissekera "Drömmen".
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super interesting perspective: writing to (not me) his child. very well written. ((did get dreamers mixed up with daca kids for a second lol))
- really made me change my thinking in terms of race and racism, like their relationship and also what they are in terms of abstract rather than established concepts
- the explanation of how white america kind of created race as a more structural concept in order to raise themselves up really makes sense
- as a minority, i try to set myself apart from white people and become better than them, and to do so i have to enter primarily white spaces like the school i'm attending, but the notion of prince jones going to howard as to see others like him and to be "normal" is something i totally understand yet many white people would not because they feel as if aspiring to be them rather than staying within one's ethnic group should be the goal, as they think anything else is below them
- the explanation of how white america kind of created race as a more structural concept in order to raise themselves up really makes sense
- as a minority, i try to set myself apart from white people and become better than them, and to do so i have to enter primarily white spaces like the school i'm attending, but the notion of prince jones going to howard as to see others like him and to be "normal" is something i totally understand yet many white people would not because they feel as if aspiring to be them rather than staying within one's ethnic group should be the goal, as they think anything else is below them
dark
emotional
hopeful
reflective
fast-paced
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challenging
emotional
reflective
fast-paced
Everyone should read this book. I don't even know what to say about it so I'm just going to share a quote.
"Americans believe in the reality of "race" as a defined, indubitable feature of the natural world. Racism-the need to scribe bone-deep features to people and then humiliate, reduce, and destroy them-inevitably follows from this inalterable condition. In this way, racism is rendered as the innocent daughter of Mother Nature, and one is left to deplore the Middle Passage or the Trail of Tears the way one deplores an earthquake, a tornado, or any other phenomenon that can be cast beyond the handiwork of men. But race is the child of racism, not the father."
Honestly a hard read. There was a lot of anger projected by the author as he was talking to his son about his future and life as a black man.