{"id":339,"date":"2017-03-08T00:40:08","date_gmt":"2017-03-08T05:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/?p=339"},"modified":"2017-03-08T00:40:08","modified_gmt":"2017-03-08T05:40:08","slug":"ehrenreichs-ignorance-on-race","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/barbara-ehrenreich\/ehrenreichs-ignorance-on-race\/","title":{"rendered":"Ehrenreich&#8217;s Ignorance on Race"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In about the middle of this chapter,\u00a0Ehrenreich describes her experiences going out into the world after her shift. She has on her maid outfit which makes her stand out, and combined with her strong odor, she gets a lot of mean looks and generally poor treatment. My problem (and confusion) comes when she writes, &#8220;Maybe, it occurs to me, I&#8217;m getting a tiny glimpse of what it would be like to be black&#8221; (100).<\/p>\n<p>I\u00a0genuinely do not understand why she would think that. I get that she said maybe it&#8217;s a tiny glimpse, but to me, that statement is\u00a0such an incredible stretch, and\u00a0given her past microagressions, I don&#8217;t think she is in a position to feel that way. She is a white woman from the middle class. Maybe if she had shown more insight into race relations in the 90&#8217;s or even elaborated on her statement, I might understand. But instead, she just drops that sentence at the end of a paragraph and then goes on describing her day. I want to talk more about this in class, but right now, I strongly disagree with Ehrenreich\u00a0on this one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In about the middle of this chapter,\u00a0Ehrenreich describes her experiences going out into the world after her shift. She has on her maid outfit which makes her stand out, and combined with her strong odor, she gets a lot of mean looks and generally poor treatment. My problem (and confusion) comes when she writes, &#8220;Maybe, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":389,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-barbara-ehrenreich"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/389"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=339"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}