Even her own family, try as they might, cannot relate to Hannah in the same way they used to. When Hannah is released from her confinement, it is into a hostile world, where the violent hue of her skin causes some people to shrink back and others to leer threateningly. Hannah has been chromed, her skin dyed to signify the crime for which she has been convicted: murder. She has plenty of time to consider her new condition, locked, as she is, in an isolated room, no company but her own thoughts, her every move monitored and broadcast to homes across America. Not pink, like she’s been out in the sun too long.
It will be out on October 4th mark your calendars now! About the Book: The long-awaited When She Woke is finally about to be published, and let me tell you, it was worth the wait. After the reading, when asked about what she was working on next, Jordan hinted that her next novel would be very different from Mudbound, and I was instantly intrigued. They expose him not as a race traitor but as an unserious person, one either unwilling or incapable of contributing meaningfully to the discussion of race, politics and free speech in modern America.I read Mudbound, Hillary Jordan’s debut novel, when it first came out, after Jordan did an event at the bookstore where I worked. If McWhorter’s readers dismiss him out of hand, it will be because of these sort of ahistorical arguments, not because of the color of his skin. This is a fundamental misreading of American history and politics - and Black people’s contribution to both.
In coming to this conclusion, he glosses over the literal hundred years Black people struggled to force this country to recognize their human rights. This had an ironic by-product: It meant that black people could not have a basic pride in having come the whole way.” Basic protections under the law are, he suggests here, a gift that Black people are insufficiently grateful for yet secretly hobbled by. Framing the civil rights era as a benevolent gift from Whites, he writes: “Segregation had been outlawed from on high, with black Americans not having had to endure the long, slow clawing our way into self-sufficiency regardless of prevailing attitudes that other groups had dealt with.
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