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Writing the Other® Bridging Cultural Differences for Successful Fiction
Why Us
The Dominant Paradigm
1
Why This Guide?
ROAARS: Race/Orientation/Ability/Age/Religion/Sex
Format
2
Reptile Brain Function and the Liberal Dread of the Racist Label
A Walk in Whiteville
The Reptile Brain
It’s Okay
3
The Unmarked State
Driving While White: A Cautionary Tale
Exercise 1
4
Parallax: Who is Looking at Whom?
An Old Maine Joke
What You See Depends on Where You Stand
The Liberal Perception Fallacy
Different Differences
Exercise 2
5
Categorical Thinking
Stories and Categories
Categorization: Always False?
A Final Term for Generalization
Exercise 3
6
Congruence
Categories All Around Us
Do You Remember When? Congruence and Change
Exercise 4
Exercise 5
7
Unintended and Intended Associations and Resonances
Intended Resonances: Not Always a Good Idea
Exercise 6
Exercise 7
Don’t Do This!
“The Dark Hordes Attacked”
Glory Syndrome
Sidekicks-R-Us
Subtle Victimization
Patronizing Romanticizations
But Maybe Someone Really Did Say That…
Disrespectful Dialect
The Saintly Victim
“Don’t Go There!”
Conclusion
Exercise 8
Works Cited
Beautiful Strangers: Transracial Writing for the Sincere
Works Cited
Appropriate Cultural Appropriation
Works Cited/Recommended Reading
The Blazing World
Biographies
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