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Junot Díaz Reads How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl, or Halfie)

The New Yorker: Fiction

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The Vulnerability of Minority Characters

I think it's tough sometimes to sort of balance the political correctness of that with boldness, you know, that being an artist requires. No one assumes that Janabdik is writing about all white men. Even in his case, people would say, well, he's writing about a certain generation. People assume that we're writing not just our autobiography but paradoxically about an entire group or race of people. So it's very strange.

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