NP- Notes on a Foreign Country

[Mark Kohut]

Speaking of race and whiteness, which we have here on the plist, I just
love 'scholarship' of world-historical scope when it produces this:

https://aeon.co/ideas/how-white-people-were-invented-by-a-playwright-in-1613

On Tue, Sep 19, 2017 at 3:01 AM, Mike Weaver <mike.weaver at zen.co.uk> wrote:

> Can I recommend this book by Suzy Hansen subtitled An American Abroad in a
> Post American World. A description of what happens when an innocent white
> American woman discovers James Baldwin's writings and moves to Turkey,
> initially on a writing fellowship, but ten years later is still living
> there. There's a taster in the Guardian
> <https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/aug/08/unlearning-the-myth-of-american-innocence>
> which introduced me to her. Now half way through the book and short of
> sleep as a result I encourage every one of you to read it. Worthy of
> informed discussion in this group, I think, and relevant to our general
> considerations.
>
>
> regards to you all regular pontificants and lurkers alike
> Mike
>
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