There’s a long history in America of white people imagining black people’s lives - in novels, in movies, and sometimes in journalism. In 1969, Grace Halsell, a white journalist, published a book call...Show More
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rmmiller364 recommended:May 21st, 2020
The story of a white woman in the 1960s who engaged in stunt journalism, transforming her appearance so she could pass as a woman of color (a black woman, a Navajo woman, an undocumented Mexican woman) to write books about the experience. It seems like these books tell us a lot more about what it wa...Show More
mmMay 22nd, 2020
@rmmiller364 This was so crazy.
mm recommended:May 22nd, 2020
A white woman dressed up as a black woman and then wrote a book about it. Rachel Dolezal before Rachel Dolezal. A perfect illustration of the failure of the concept of empathy.
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