Charlotte

Dear Mr. Aronson,

As a recent reader of your book, there were many things I and enjoyed about it, and many things I discovered about race. I realized that race and prejudice are constant thought topics for everyone, even if they’re not things that we consciously think about. This is a new discovery for me because I didn't really think about it before; race is often a touchy subject, even when it's in our heads. I also found it interesting that reading your book helped the people in our class be more open about race. I liked the way you put your own opinions into the book in a way that didn't try and persuade us to believe they were fact; that never works anyway. I was reading another book on race at the time (Barack Obama's __Dreams From my Father__) and I found myself inadvertently comparing the two books. I liked the way I could relate to things Obama said in his book while reading yours, and vice versa. This was fun, believe it or not, because for some reason that doesn't happen to me very often (probably because I don't read much nonfiction). Reading about race from different people's perspectives gave me a good view on how different people perceive race. Thank you for writing this book; it has broadened my view of race and I really hope I remember to think about it in the future.

Sincerely, Charlotte Popetz