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I get that she's a racist. But to me there's a huge difference between her writing from the perspective of a Latin American character (assuming she did a good job of it, which she clearly didn't) and her actually identifying as Latina (Puerto Rican) when she isn't. As a writer she can try to put herself in the shoes of a Latina (or a Latino) character. Writers have to do that or all their characters would just be the same character (the writer) in different stories. But her claiming to be Latina when she's actually white is different. That's like Rachel Dolezal claiming to be black. So it seems to me the Jeanine Cummins issue is not *just* that she's a racist writer, but also that she is claiming to be someone she's not. Rachel Dolezal weaseled her way into the NAACP because she "identified as black". How is that different? Apart from the fact that Rachel Dolezal seems to have meant well. On Sat, Jul 11, 2020 at 12:35 PM Louis Proyect via Marxism < marxism@lists.csbs.utah.edu> 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. > ***************************************************************** > > On 7/10/20 7:39 PM, John Edmundson via Marxism wrote: > > 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? > > Sure you can do that. The problem was that her book was filled with > racist stereotypes, and even worse treated like the book of the year by > gringo critics. > > _________________________________________________________ > 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
