Race, Color and Gender

I think that race, class and gender play a huge role in how we interpret a piece of literature. It has you think about how the person in the book or how the author feels about what they are writing. If a female wrote a book about how to be a man you would get everything from their perspective and you would not necessarily know what it was like to be a male unless you interviewed or read books by other male authors. Race plays a huge role as well. I think that in a lot of books that i have read if the author is African American then it is okay for them to say things and write about things that if a white author was writing about would not be okay for them to say. For example if I was African American than it would be okay for me to refer to myself as being black but since I a white it is more correct if I say African American. I don't think that is fair. If I have to watch what I say to respect someone else, then they should have to watch hat they have to say and respect themselves. Class also lays a huge role in writing Many people write about the upper class as being snobby, and boring. And then several others write abut how poor classes are lazy and worthless.


I thought that # 26 about being able to go somewhere and buy something such as a doll is very true. Until very recently all barbie dolls were white, they did have different hair colors but they were all white. Now when little girls go to the store they can find a Barbie in whatever race they are looking for. They come in white, black, tan, chinese, indian, etc.

I also thought # 46 abut make up was kind of funny. Whenever I go to the store to buy make up many of the colors are listed as being flesh tones, or neutral, and if someone other than a white person tried to use flesh tones or neutral it would look bad because it would not match their skin color In all honesty I have never been to the store and seen makeup for other races of skin color.

Can also relate to people of other colors, so we should not just look at this as black and white!