To the author of Trespassers?: Your account on the cultural background invoked us to talk about cultrual appropriation. For most of the time, people tend to generalize a single cultural phenomenon as to represent the whole set of cultural system. Usually, a person won't truly understand the internal reason of the existence of different rituals and customs, but they will still practice it fo various reasons, sometimes just for attention and profits. Your discussion in your book about the so-called "model minority" stereotype gave us an inspiration to talk about the occurrence of micro-offense. Due to the inability to fully comprehend a kind of culture, a person may make another person uncomfortable by asking questions that gives hint to all the traditional stereotypes, and the tricky thing is that only the one who's being asked have the power to judge and explain, but sometimes explanation just won't work very easily. Your book can be modified by adding in these elements and discuss them more extensively.
How to Discern a Race Issue?
Dear Claudia Rankine, I found your writing about Serena Williams to be particularly fascinating and it brings up a lot of questions about the current state of race in corporate America. I would be curious to hear your thoughts on a few things. I'm not sure if the officials in these games were confirmed to be racist in that sense, but if so that would affect the interpretation. If, for example, they have no known racist background, how do you tell if such an incident is inherently about race? You say that the ref didn't like seeing the black body on her court, but without evidence how can you in fact confirm such a thing? Not that I am questioning your assertions directly, but in what situations can you discern that actions are definitely a race issue? I know that there are plenty of situations in which refs have screwed over white men in sports, so I wonder as to how you can tell. Thanks, Vaughan Siker
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