What's Race Got To Do With It? African American Literature and the Ethics of Reading
Dr. Lesley Larkin (associate professor of English at Northern Michigan University and a Linfield College alum) discusses her book Race and the Literary Encounter: Black Literature from James Weldon Johnson to Percival Everett, which traces the strategies developed by modern and contemporary Black writers to challenge, model, and theorize modes of reading race. Larkin explores how black literature has challenged the notion that reading is a race-neutral act by modeling interventionist strategies to create anti-racist readers.