Freddie

Dear Mr. Aronson,

I really enjoyed reading your book Race. I had been unaware of much of what you wrote. I liked the way you took time to talk about each individual leader of the civil rights movement and explained how all were inspired by Gandhi’s ideas.

I learned a lot that I didn’t already know about the Holocaust from your book. However, I thought that your admitted dislike of Germans detracted from your arguments against them. It makes the reader skeptical of what you wrote about Germans.

I also liked the way that you arranged the book in chronological order and divided the book into concise chapters. It was informative when you talked about how racial occurrences in one country affected racial occurrences in another. I especially liked the way you presented the ‘levels’ of racism and how they affected various cultures.

I had hoped that the book would have had a more conclusive ending. Throughout the book, you talked about how divisive race is, but towards the end of the book, you seem to give up that idea. I think you could’ve been a little better at ‘keeping the faith.’ You say people just have to take race for what it is because that’s the way it’s going to stay.

Overall, I learned much about the origins of race. Thank you for teaching so much through your thought-provoking book.

Sincerely, Freddie Stavins