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To: a fool in paradise

The book version of “The Wanderers” was more explicitly racist by the standards of today, but keep in mind that Price was writing about the mileau he observed growing up in the Bronx at that time, as one of the few Jewish kids in a housing project with a large Italian and black population.


78 posted on 02/07/2021 6:23:10 PM PST by Clemenza
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To: Clemenza

By that standard Black Like Me is a racist book.


81 posted on 02/07/2021 6:41:26 PM PST by a fool in paradise (Call on Joe Biden to follow Donald Trump's example and donate his annual salary to charity. )
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