{"id":466,"date":"2022-10-05T15:55:38","date_gmt":"2022-10-05T19:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-fall-22-c-perry\/?p=466"},"modified":"2022-11-07T12:27:57","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T17:27:57","slug":"does-the-writers-race-matter-when-the-narrative-deals-with-issues-of-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-fall-22-c-perry\/2022\/10\/05\/does-the-writers-race-matter-when-the-narrative-deals-with-issues-of-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Does the writer&#8217;s race matter when the narrative deals with issues of race?&nbsp;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In&nbsp; \u201cDesiree&#8217;s baby\u201d&nbsp; short story her baby was born with dark skin and her husband said \u201c it means \u201d he answered lightly, \u201cthat the child is not white; it means that you are not white.\u201d(3). Why did he blame her for the skin color of their baby ? only because she was a woman, so it was supposed to be her fault. I think he already knew that his mother was black, but he didn&#8217;t accept that fact.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">&nbsp;For me the writer\u2019s race does not matter at all nowadays. For me almost every minority group is experiencing any form of racial discriminacion in America. We can see that all the time in the news, newspaper or social media. We can see different kind of discriminacion against black, latinos, women, gays, etc, no only for their skin color also for their belief, language or even their accent.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last semester I read an article called &nbsp;\u201c Accent bias: A Barrier to Black African-Born Nurses Seeking Managerial and Faculty positions in the United States\u201d By Michigan University, the study shows the challenges that&nbsp; immigrants face in America for their foreign accents. This study shows the discriminacion that many nurses have to face for not sounding American, so discriminacion is a huge problem right now.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In&nbsp; \u201cDesiree&#8217;s baby\u201d&nbsp; short story her baby was born with dark skin and her husband said \u201c it means \u201d he answered lightly, \u201cthat the child is not white; it means that you are not white.\u201d(3). Why did he blame her for the skin color of their baby ? only because she was a woman, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-fall-22-c-perry\/2022\/10\/05\/does-the-writers-race-matter-when-the-narrative-deals-with-issues-of-race\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Does the writer&#8217;s race matter when the narrative deals with issues of race?&nbsp;<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6096,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"portfolio_post_id":0,"portfolio_citation":"","portfolio_annotation":"","openlab_post_visibility":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[20,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chopin","category-fiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-fall-22-c-perry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-fall-22-c-perry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-fall-22-c-perry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-fall-22-c-perry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6096"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-fall-22-c-perry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-fall-22-c-perry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":467,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-fall-22-c-perry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/466\/revisions\/467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-fall-22-c-perry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-fall-22-c-perry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/openlab.bmcc.cuny.edu\/eng-201-fall-22-c-perry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}