Re: Racial diversity here and possible (probable maybe,even?)
patrick flaherty (pfkw@email.msn.com)
Wed, 12 Aug 1998 15:21:36 -0400
Would you agree that an African American would relate more to say, Toni
Morrison than Salinger? And vise versa for a White American?
Patrick
pfkw@msn.com
-----Original Message-----
From: Kayllie@aol.com <Kayllie@aol.com>
To: bananafish@lists.nyu.edu <bananafish@lists.nyu.edu>
Date: Wednesday, August 12, 1998 12:58 PM
Subject: Re: Racial diversity here and possible (probable maybe,even?)
lackthereof......
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>
>Tim - I loved Metropolitan too. In fact, all of Whit Stillman's movies are
>great. And most of them do have characters that come from the same world as
>Holden does.
>
>Andrew - Thanks tons for clarifying. I'm sure you are quite right about the
>racial diversity of this list. Somehow your skepticism made me feel
excluded;
>as if my presence on this list is invalidated because I'm not a WASP, but
I'm
>making it a goal in life to let stuff like that go because trying to
correct
>people's perceptions takes more time and energy that i'm willing to devote
to
>it.
>However I cannot stop myself from saying something about "minorities" (a
term
>which may be politically correct, but which I find meaningless because a)
It
>lumps people of varying racial and ethnic backgrounds and cultures together
>which is so ridiculous and b) If they are to be lumped together, it should
at
>least be acknowledged that they far outnumber the so-called "majority") and
>JDS.
>I'm not sure what high school your Aunt taught at or what her experiences
>really were but I went a racially diverse high school in the Bronx and we
were
>taught 'Catcher' freshman year and it was universally loved. Also, every
>single non-white person I've ever spoken to about JDS and who is familiar
with
>his work loves it. So this perception that "minorities" don't feel
favorably
>towards JDS really rings wrong with me and has not been my experience.
>
>Peggy