Junot Diaz! He came to our school to do a reading a few weeks ago and it was awesome. Also, you just expanded my To Read list by a million percent :/
Also, if you're interested in writing on race, I read Aria: a Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood by Richard Rodriguez recently and it was fantastic. It's a pretty short piece that touches on a lot of themes (immigration and the use of language among them) and if you get a chance you should definitely read it.
I keep trying to follow RaceFail '09 and it gives me headaches. So. Many. Posts. And at various points it devolved into sexism wank and pseudonymity wank and ftlog can we all just stop wanking already? THIS is why we can't have nice things!
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Also, if you're interested in writing on race, I read Aria: a Memoir of a Bilingual Childhood by Richard Rodriguez recently and it was fantastic. It's a pretty short piece that touches on a lot of themes (immigration and the use of language among them) and if you get a chance you should definitely read it.
I keep trying to follow RaceFail '09 and it gives me headaches. So. Many. Posts. And at various points it devolved into sexism wank and pseudonymity wank and ftlog can we all just stop wanking already? THIS is why we can't have nice things!