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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My HS students complains they are all about race.  She says she thinks it almost makes race a bigger issue than it would be otherwise.[/quote]
Race actually is a big issue. And pretending it isn't, doesn't make it a smaller one, although a lot of people seem to wish that it did.[/quote]

Of course it is a big issue but that does not mean that every single book for 4 years has to focus in it![/quote]

What are some titles of these books focusing on race?

Because I wonder if it's actually about race, or just about someone of a different race than you...[/quote]

Sorry can't list them. That is just my child's comment (repeated several times over the years).  She is tired of reading books focused on race.  She is a minority herself so I am guessing that is not it though.  [/quote]

Same here, the summer reading lists are the same new author race genre as well. Sigh. [/quote]

Are you the person who complained about the summer reading list at Whitman?

The one who seemed to think that "book by person who is not white" = "book about race"?[/quote]

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