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Just starting this while my husband is driving us to Noank CT on the shoreline for our annual family lobster fest. 🦞
Linsy Such a good book!!! 4y
SamAnne I'm a huge Jessmyn fan & there are so many great pieces in this collection--except for the essay on Rachael Dolezal. Lazy research--he didn't even get the city she lived in right. It is a rich story with a lot to discuss & that essay fell flat for me. Google Ijeomo Uluo's article in The Stranger instead. It is brilliant, although her description of Spokane is a bit unfair--Portland has as large of a racist element, sadly, as Spokane. 4y
kspenmoll @SamAnne Thank you so much for the heads up! I will do as you suggest. Really appreciate your input!!‘ 4y
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SamAnne @kspenmoll I was a little obsessed with the Dolezal story. Met her briefly a couple of times. She was a white woman from MT who represented herself as Black, got elected president of the Spokane NAACP. How? What was the collective denial and silence going on? In retrospect she was so clearly a white woman with dreads and a spray tan. Grew up in a conservative Christian family with Black adopted brothers. So many levels of crazy to unpack. 4y
kspenmoll @SamAnne I remember reading the news reports when she came undone. Not there yet in the book but will read essay today. 4y
SamAnne @kspenmoll Here is the link to Uluo's interview with Dolezal from 2017. https://www.thestranger.com/features/2017/04/19/25082450/the-heart-of-whiteness-... 4y
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