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What Black Writers Can’t Write About, Part II

Monday, February 8th, 2010

(What Black writers can’t write about—or 13 ways of looking at Black literature)

1. Interracial Sex (Romantic)

2. Interracial Sex (Freaky)

3. Black characters who have skin the color of food-- I once wanted to write about a character who had skin the exact color of a McDonald’s chocolate soft-serve milkshake but my workshop vetoed the description

4. Black ghetto life

5. Black middle class life

6. Barack Obama

7. Black liberals

8. Black conservatives

9. Homophobia

10. Being Light-Skinned

11. Being Dark-Skinned

12. The lives of Black women

13. The lives of Black men

So tell me, am I missing anything?

Black Writers