#the racial imaginary

“Imaginative writing that polices itself from making ‘politically incorrect’ statements; or from dramatizing difficult conflicts and disturbing states of consciousness; or from using language disapproved of by today’s liberal mores; such writing is useless…One of the social functions of literary art…is to expose moral hypocrisy where it hides from view, in our best intentions.”

-Joshua Weiner, from The Racial Imaginary