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From: Norma Jean Sawicki <nsawicki_at_nyc.rr.com>
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 09:34:46 -0500
Debbie…
Yes, I did tell Ursula Nordstrom that Sounder did not work for me because it romanticized poverty. During the sixties, early seventies, many people felt strongly…black Americans as well as whites, that white people had no business writing books about black Americans, and those who did were systematically attacked….attacks that were frequently led by the Interracial Council on Books for children which was founded in 1965 by Bradford Chambers/w/Jewish…an organization ( to which I initially belonged) that created as much harm as it did good. Thoroughly research the novel, The Cay by Theodore Taylor…the Jane Adams Peace Prize, among other things…
The conversation with Ursula about Sounder went on for over an hour…. in my post, I did not go into detail….there was no need…just as there is no need here. BUT…I had much to say about racisim and class just as I do in conversations with friends today. Romantizing poverty was the beginning of a more in depth conversation….Norma Jean
Date: Sun, 23 Feb 2014 09:34:46 -0500
Debbie…
Yes, I did tell Ursula Nordstrom that Sounder did not work for me because it romanticized poverty. During the sixties, early seventies, many people felt strongly…black Americans as well as whites, that white people had no business writing books about black Americans, and those who did were systematically attacked….attacks that were frequently led by the Interracial Council on Books for children which was founded in 1965 by Bradford Chambers/w/Jewish…an organization ( to which I initially belonged) that created as much harm as it did good. Thoroughly research the novel, The Cay by Theodore Taylor…the Jane Adams Peace Prize, among other things…
The conversation with Ursula about Sounder went on for over an hour…. in my post, I did not go into detail….there was no need…just as there is no need here. BUT…I had much to say about racisim and class just as I do in conversations with friends today. Romantizing poverty was the beginning of a more in depth conversation….Norma Jean
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