re: #49 Gus

What are they going to tell me that Castro isn’t white either? Sure, he’s Hispanic but also white — the latter being a designation that include any variety of ethnicity. My aunt is from Cuba and I also met her parents many years ago. They’re also white. There are also Afro-Cubans.

It gets a little nuts, and not on the winger side alone. There’s a website the Women’s Studies department of one college started that’s supposed to be a database of information about American women writers of color. It’s a good resource, but since I came in as someone who was asking them to include more Jewish writers, (I got several on the list, go me), the oddities of how they understood race were very…odd…and apparent to me. Jews and the Americas is where it gets funny. They couldn’t quite distinguish ‘Hispanophone’ and ‘raised in Latin America’ from ‘nonwhite’. Hence, Marjorie Agosin worked for them. But I didn’t ask about Grace Paley.