There is a long tradition of white people thinking they can read their
way out of trouble. Examples abound, from sentimental novels like
Harriet Beecher Stowe’s anti-slavery/Uncle Tom’s Cabin/(1852)—which
engaged white antebellum readers through appeals to sympathy and
Christian sentiment—to sociological readings of race novels by
mid-twentieth-century middlebrow book clubs, the formation of “U.S.
ethnic lit” during the canon wars of the 1980s and ’90s, and the
explosion of “global literature” in recent decades. As Jodi Melamed
noted almost ten years ago in/Represent and Destroy: Rationalizing
Violence in the New Racial Capitalism/(2011), “The idea that literature
has something to do with antiracism and being a good person has entered
into the self-care of elites, who have learned to see themselves as part
of a multinational group of enlightened multicultural global citizens.”
http://bostonreview.net/race/melissa-phruksachart-literature-white-liberalism
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