So, in the latest go-round on racism, reader response, and the like, I have very little useful to say. The one thing that I haven’t seen much discussion on--though I haven’t waded into many comment threads, so I might just have missed it--is about the false opposition between rational/academic/literary analysis and emotional/political response, specifically about what it means to have emotions. Anyone who tells you that they aren’t responding emotionally to anything they have spent the time to... read more
