carsonrmowery 's review for:

Playing in the Dark: Whiteness and the Literary Imagination by Toni Morrison

5.0

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Please, if you ever write about the claims Morrison makes within her fiction, use this to back up your points. If you’re a white writer, do not insert your own explanations of Blackness based on what you think Morrison is saying. She is incredibly clear within this criticism, as well as other essays. Do not contribute to the problem at hand here, which is silencing authors of color with the white imagination. This criticism changed my life and the way I study literature, and I’m grateful for that.