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
6. Barack Obama
9. Homophobia
12. The lives of Black women
13. The lives of Black men
So tell me, am I missing anything?
