I'm glad I was forced to read Black literature (Invisible Man, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Song of Solomon, etc.) in school. I don't think I would have otherwise. I'm Asian so it's not as if racism is some foreign concept to me, but at that age I wasn't particularly cognizant of Black American history (other than slavery) or art.
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I'm glad I was forced to read Black literature (Invisible Man, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Song of Solomon, etc.) in school. I don't think I would have otherwise. I'm Asian so it's not as if racism is some foreign concept to me, but at that age I wasn't particularly cognizant of Black American history (other than slavery) or art.