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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.
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