#race-and-representation

#race-and-representation

Pete "would have been an ideal - if I were a straight white man." "But we were already asking a lot of America: to accept a woman, a Black woman, a Black woman married to a Jewish man," Kamala wrote, according to The Atlantic. "Part of me wanted to say, Screw it, let's just do it. But knowing what was at stake, it was too big of a risk." "And I think Pete also knewe that - to our mutual sadness," Kamala added.

Playwright Karen Zacarias first encountered Jack Schaefer's classic 1949 novel Shane as a sixth grader and recent immigrant to Boston from Mexico. Not yet having internalized the expectation of seeing white Americans at the center of every story, she envisioned the main character of this classic Western tale as Puerto Rican baseball start Roberto Clemente, a hero of hers who happened to be Black, and the farming family at the center of the story as Mexican.