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Why I m reading contemporary Black American novelists Alison Slow Loris
I don t know how it feels to be Black in this country.
Black-led protests, Black writers editorials, Black friends Facebook postings show me not only the constant fear that affects every Black person s interaction with white authority and white strangers, but also the daily emotional toll of uncounted microaggressions, all the tiny pinpricks of racism (often unconscious) that give Black and other people of color the message that they re considered suspicious, abnormal or subnormal, not “really” American, because of their race. Being considered “exotic” can t feel much better. Even compliments often carry a sting. Praising a Black person for being articulate or a good parent, for example, implies that the opposite is more typical of their race.