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"Crossing Division Street:" An Essay on Race

By AAN Staff
august 28, 2002  09:57 am
"Crossing Division Street:" An Essay on Race
"How do white people learn what to think about race? It's best not to think about it." That's the conclusion Jim Schutze of the Dallas Observer comes to after delving into his own childhood and adolescent memories of growing up in the South. He worked months on this story after being challenged by an author who said black writers are always expected to write very personally about race, while white writers "always get to lie back a little." No more. Schutze went deep and came up with some weird and uncomfortable memories.
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