{"id":471,"date":"2017-04-16T14:24:21","date_gmt":"2017-04-16T18:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/?p=471"},"modified":"2017-04-16T14:29:09","modified_gmt":"2017-04-16T18:29:09","slug":"whos-side-are-you-on","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/paul-beatty\/whos-side-are-you-on\/","title":{"rendered":"126-186"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The narrator notes how &#8220;offendedness&#8221; is not a real emotion and does not know how one should react when this word is pronounced in a &#8220;clear and sober voice&#8221; (130). Beatty mocking people that say they are offended shows how many social interactions surrounding race are caught up euphemisms and not easily translatable to discussion. Instead of noting pain or overt racism, offended just notes something wrong has been said. Marpessa calls the narrator a \u201crace pervert\u201d for his \u00a0comments and notes that on his own time he cross dresses as a white man. This alludes to how \u201ctraitors\u201d of their own communities are always seen as wanting to be white. If the narrator is willing to organize a segregated bus and not see how the term \u201coffended\u201d is logical, he must be a traitor to his own race. In this way, the narrator embodies the \u201csellout\u201d or \u201ccoon\u201d image \u00a0he already has with the black intellectuals. I think Beatty highlights this moment to show how even within communities of color, one&#8217;s identity and authenticity is constantly being challenged and called into question. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The narrator notes how &#8220;offendedness&#8221; is not a real emotion and does not know how one should react when this word is pronounced in a &#8220;clear and sober voice&#8221; (130). Beatty mocking people that say they are offended shows how many social interactions surrounding race are caught up euphemisms and not easily translatable to discussion. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":390,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-paul-beatty"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","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\/390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.bowdoin.edu\/english-1038-spring-2017\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}