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It is interesting that "[T]his could be a reference to *American Dirt*, a book by Jeanine Cummins — a non-Mexican white woman <https://www.npr.org/2020/01/24/799164276/american-dirt-author-jeanine-cummins-answers-vocal-critics> who recently began identifying as Puerto Rican — about a Mexican bookseller, which was roundly criticized by Latinx writers and authors like Myriam Gurba <https://tropicsofmeta.com/2019/12/12/pendeja-you-aint-steinbeck-my-bronca-with-fake-ass-social-justice-literature/> and *Los Angeles Times *writer Esmeralda Bermudez <https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2020-01-24/american-dirt-book-latino-response>. That book was featured as a part of Oprah’s Book Club, despite the fact that Latinx journalists like Bermudez said the story was a far cry from real-life immigrant experiences." So being trans-racial is not OK. Fair enough. Jeanine Cummins should be able to write a book from the perspective of someone with experiences other than her own (all writers have to do that all the time) but deciding that she can start "identifying as Puerto Rican" is a whole different thing. She can't claim that the experience of *being* Latina is hers because it's not. Because saying you 'feel' Latina (or any other race) doesn't make you one. Are we agreed on that? Comradely, John On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 9:34 AM Louis Proyect via Marxism < [email protected]> wrote: > ******************** POSTING RULES & NOTES ******************** > #1 YOU MUST clip all extraneous text when replying to a message. > #2 This mail-list, like most, is publicly & permanently archived. > #3 Subscribe and post under an alias if #2 is a concern. > ***************************************************************** > > Rank-and-file journalists answer the big-shots on Harper's > > https://theobjective.substack.com/p/a-more-specific-letter-on-justice > > _________________________________________________________ > Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm > Set your options at: > https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/johnedmundson4%40gmail.com > -- "All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks." Sarah Moore Grimke, abolitionist (1792-1873) _________________________________________________________ Full posting guidelines at: http://www.marxmail.org/sub.htm Set your options at: https://lists.csbs.utah.edu/options/marxism/archive%40mail-archive.com
