Paul

Dear Mr. Aronson,

Upon completion of your book, one passage stuck firmly in my mind. This was the paragraph in italics on page 208 and 209. In this section you are constantly criticizing the Germans. You go from resenting the fact that their soccer team is successful, to even “resenting every bite of food they savor.” This paragraph did not seem to fit into the rest of your book. It seemed like in this whole book you are trying to show us how prejudices are a major problem, yet in this paragraph you seem to have nothing but prejudice against the Germans. I would also like to know why you chose to document your notes in the way you did. I personally found them very hard to follow because I constantly needed to flip to the back of the book to view them. I think that it would have been much easier for the readers to look at your notes if you had simply put them at the bottom of the page in the form of footnotes. Other than those two problems I had, I enjoyed the way you constructed the rest of the book. I especially liked the section where you were giving the comparisons such as “White = Not Irish.” I thought that this whole section gave us a very good idea of how different races were treated completely differently based only on the color of their skin and where they are from. I hope this has given you insightful feedback on your book //Race: A History Beyond Black and White.// Sincerely, Paul Seeley