Karena

Dear Mr. Aronson, As you know us students at Uni have been reading your book Race. I personally had mixed feelings about it. I liked that you started each chapter with a story; this really drew me into the rest of the chapter. Reading Race really me aware of what has happened and what is happening in America. Being biracial I loved the last chapter. I liked that you talked about mixed marriages and becoming a “brown country”, I thought it was really happy that you gave mixed marriages some recognition.

Although there were things that I like about your book there were things that I didn’t like. One thing that bothered me was on page 227 when you used the N word. I know that you were quoting someone but being half African/American I took offence to your saying that. Also, sometimes I found you hard to follow. You had soooo many different points of views that at times I didn’t know who you were talking about. For example in chapter 13when you were talking about the Darwin theory, euginics, German musicians you switched topics and points of views so much that I was confused the whole chapter.

So overall, I thought your book Race was okay.

Sincerely, Karena Mitchell