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And latino relations, people are living it on a day to day basis, but both of you kind of approach this from your academic perspectives in terms of literature. So professor gates well just call you skip. Mmhmm. Hinojosa . Why look at this current important relationship through the prism of literature . Well, ive added to the Norton Anthology of African American literature along with ten of my colleagues. Hinojosa this big book big, heavy book, yes. laughing its the big bible. This. The mother ship of black literature. In order to enshrine African American literature in the academy. Look, if you are from the whitest place in say, idaho and there are no black people around and you cant get black books in the bookstore, if you can get one anthology, theres no excuse not to teach African American literature. So you buy one book, you get a whole semester course. And i wanted to do this, as im sure ilan did, to make it possible for people to teach and to study African American literature and
Living it on a day to day basis, but both of you kind of approach this from your academic perspectives in terms of literature. So professor gates well just call you skip. Mmhmm. Hinojosa . Why look at this current important relationship through the prism of literature . Well, ive added to the Norton Anthology of African American literature along with ten of my colleagues. Hinojosa this big book big, heavy book, yes. laughing its the big bible. This. The mother ship of black literature. In order to enshrine African American literature in the academy. Look, if you are from the whitest place in say, idaho and there are no black people around and you cant get black books in the bookstore, if you can get one anthology, theres no excuse not to teach African American literature. So you buy one book, you get a whole semester course. And i wanted to do this, as im sure ilan did, to make it possible for people to teach and to study African American literature and latino literature. And theres so
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