Writers Need to Do More Than Add Shades of Brown
In American literature, characters of color should also have multidimensional identities.
by ARUNI KASHYAP, QUARTZ
Aug 13, 2015
3 minutes
I wasn't conscious of being brown before moving to the United States. The truth is, I feel very Indian, very Assamese — not brown, because I never grew up considering myself brown. But after a year of living in the United States, through many gatherings in which I was the only person of color, I have learned better.
Once, in a reading I attended in Minnesota, I was shocked to find an up-and-coming author describe
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