” White writers in many cases choose not to populate their fiction with people of color. A lot of what I’m doing is trying to write against that, not about race but against the avoidance of race that’s such a dominant model in white literary discourse. “
” There’s a feeling among white Americans that there’s no such thing as racial harmony, no such thing as a positive, productive relationship with people of color. “
” White Americans have the option of not having to think about race on a daily basis. People of color don’t. Race is a major deciding factor in their lives and the histories of their families. “
” My greatest fear about a world in which racial reassignment surgery becomes common is that it then becomes an expression of all kinds of class privilege. You have a truly dystopian society divided between the people who can afford to be racially altered and perfected and the ones who can’t. “
” I think novels – or any art form – can have a powerful impact on people’s perceptions of race, particularly if they draw attention to the absurd inconsistencies and stereotypes we all carry around with us and don’t want to think about. “
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