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>yfw i ask you to post your favorite nonwhite author.

>> No.4805739

Akutagawa, probably.

I get the feeling all these "Name a nonwhite ____" challenges forget about the existence of Japan.

>> No.4805740

Cervantes
he wasnt white, he was latino

>> No.4805748

I like Ralph Ellison and Derek Walcott

>> No.4805753

>>4805739
They also forget about the rich tradition of African American literature that the American academic institution has been pushing for decades

>> No.4805757
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Dambudzo Marechera.

Who knew Africans could be just as edgy as whites?

>> No.4805758

>>4805748
I love Ellison too. Invisible Man is GOAT.

>> No.4805763

Neil deGrasse Tyson

>> No.4805768

>>4805740
What the fuck?

>> No.4805777

Joyce

>> No.4805783

>>4805730


thomas sowell has sufficient ideological purity to be considered a 'favorite'.

>> No.4805784

Homer

>implying Greeks are white

>> No.4805785

>>4805730
Excluding autobiographies? Dumas or Richard Wright.

Otherwise I would have lied and said Junot Diaz ):

>> No.4805787

>>4805753
Invisible Man was one of my favorite books in school, I don't care if it was part of some ridiculous scheme

>> No.4805789

>>4805730
Louis Riel
Claude Brown

>> No.4805790

>>4805730
Max Brooks.

>> No.4805792

no not really

>> No.4805795

>>4805730
Mark, Luke, and Matthew. Where's your identity politics now?

>> No.4805797

>>4805783
Sowell is pretty BAMF

>> No.4805803

probably haruki murakami
maybe alexandre dumas but i'm pretty sure i prefer murakami

>> No.4805839

>>4805803

>alexandre dumas

This of course reminds me how stupid racial tags are. I guess we could also chalk up Pushkin as a person of colour.

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>>4805730
Sowell

>> No.4805906
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4805906

white or non-white this is my favorite author.

>> No.4805914

Sigmund Freud

>> No.4805932

>>4805740

>America
God Bless

>> No.4805966

>>4805757
What the hell does that supposed to mean?

>> No.4805976
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>>4805872

>> No.4805984
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>>4805730
Might've been my favirote writer if he kept writing after Invisible Man.

Kind of a stupid idea for a thread by the way.

>>4805777
lol

>> No.4805989

>>4805966
I think that person isn't familiar wiht Rap Music.

>> No.4806066

>>4805785
Junot Diaz and Roberto Bolano. Yuck. Why are hispanic/latin writers the absolute worst.

Whites>Angry Blacks>Asians>Black Intellectuals lel>Indians and Hispanics>women

>> No.4806076

>>4805795
>not liking superior John

>> No.4806158
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this guy

>> No.4806217

>>4806066
wait are you saying Bolano is the "absolute worst"?

Step the fuck back son and qualify this statement. I can understand saying that about Junot Diaz, he writes kinda shitty almost-YA that only really gets critical acclaim because of MUH POST-MODERN MULTICULTURAL REFERENCES TO POPULAR CULTURE.

But Bolano? Shiiiiit man I want to hear your reasoning.

My favorite non-white author?

Probably Borges.

>> No.4806226

>>4805790
lol'd

>> No.4806231

>>4805730
Toni Morrison
Louise Erdrich
Langston Hughes

>> No.4806233

Jesus

>> No.4806234

>>4806217
It's creepy that you stick up for Bolaño, yet can't even be bothered to spell his name correctly.

>> No.4806250

>>4806076
John was a postmodernist rockhead.

>> No.4806251

Do Jews count as white?

>> No.4806257

>>4806234
I'm not sure how it would be "creepy", maybe "disingenuous"or "hypocritical".

But either way, I couldn't be bothered to find and insert an "ñ", when everyone is going to know what I mean when I spell "Bolaño" with a regular "n".

And its less that I'm sticking up for him and more wanting to hear why someone would put him on the same level as Junot Diaz

>> No.4806263

>>4805839
>Pushkin

right answer.

>> No.4806265

Zadie Smith

>> No.4806271

Machado de Assis

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>>4805730
>Mfw Pushkin & Falubert

>> No.4806315

>>4805906

Love his novels.

Also, he did a badass cookbook.

>> No.4807016

>>4806217
Borges was white. All Spanish descent.

>> No.4807034

Witkiewicz or Kafka

>> No.4807035

>>4807016
With some english

>> No.4807062

Osamu Dazai

I admit it made me a bit anxious, but only because I don't care about the race of a writer, so I didn't really know who wasn't actually white.

>> No.4807066

>>4806271
yes

>> No.4807369

My face would remain stoic and I would immediately answer Walter Mosley, bitch.

>> No.4807377

my favorite nonwhite author is st augustine

>> No.4807381

>>4805730
gonna have to go with Pynchon here

>> No.4807383

>>4805730
Richard Wright, probably. DuBois is pretty baller though, even know.

>> No.4807388

>>4805730
Jesus.
>captcha: sacrificed eglook

>> No.4807394

>>4806251
If they're Ashkenazim, yes.

>> No.4807401

Lin Yutang

>> No.4807409

Iceberg Slim

>> No.4807411

king solomon

>> No.4807414

>>4807409

muh nigga

>> No.4807421

Tolstoy

>implying Slavs are white

>> No.4807424

>>4805803
>probably haruki murakami

I like you.

>> No.4807426
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>>4805740
Bwaaahahahahaha

>> No.4807431

>>4805803
Dude wtf Alexandre was not non-white, I think you've been watching too many movies

>> No.4807458

James Joyce

>implying Irish people are white and not untermensch scum

>> No.4807464
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>>4807431
>Dumas' father (general Thomas-Alexandre Davy de la Pailleterie) was born in Saint-Domingue (present-day Haiti) to a French nobleman and an enslaved African woman.

He was not fully white. Pic related is of his father.

>> No.4807475

>>4807464
>implying genetics works like that
Of course I know his stupid father, I had to learn pretty much everything about him in high school years ago before starting to read his various novels. Just look pictures of him up, it's true, he's not russian white, but he's by no means even CLOSELY black

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4807478

easy as

>> No.4807484

>>4807475
Actually, genetics do work like that.

>> No.4807489

>>4807464
so his father was half-black
that makes him quarter-black
a quadroon
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadroon

>> No.4807493

>>4807484
>>4807489
>Quadroon
huehue

Still, he is NOT black, you may say, as this anon right here, that his "soul" is part black, but his skin is not

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>>4807431
>Alexander Dumas was black.

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>>4807489

>QUADROON

>> No.4807518

>>4807493
considering how dark his half-breed father was, how light skinned do you suppose he was?

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>>4807493
>not black
he has an afro

>> No.4807544

>>4807016
>>4807035

Look at what country he is from.

Check. Mate.

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>>4807498
Exactly, funny thing is, that part was just Christoph Waltz making DiCaprio look like an idiot on purpose, because how the hell would he know he was not black, and this anons are doing the exact same thing

>>4807518
Please, just google search, it's entirely possible, he had white blood in him too, it was set by chance, and chance decided he be mostly white

>>4807527
>pic related
I just... you...

>> No.4807554

>>4807549
*these anons

My bad

>> No.4807560

>>4807549
>that part was just Christoph Waltz making DiCaprio look like an idiot on purpose
in this context I'm making fun of people saying he was not black

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>>4807544
I cant believe you actually pulled this out

>> No.4807570

>>4807560
Gods be good this is getting absolutely awful. I'll just leave, it's like I'm talking to colorblind people, go on thinking Dumas was black, what the hell do I care

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4807571

Tons, somehow.

Chinua Achebe
Amy Tan
Alice Walker
Zora Neale Thurston

>> No.4807590

>>4807570
You might not define him as black but he certainly wasn't white.

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>>4807571
>Amy Tan
First mention of her I've heard since I mentioned her many many months ago!

>> No.4807595

>>4807567
well...

>> No.4807598

Kenzaburo Oe
Lu Xun

>> No.4807602

>>4807590
>unless you are straight out of Africa with two nubian parents you cannot be black
so how bout this guy, >>4807478 just a white guy with a tan?

>> No.4807608

>>4807567
Jackie Chan had 1 white grandparent
does that mean he wasnt asien?

>> No.4807611

>>4807602
I don't know why you're quoting me, I wasn't the one contesting he was black.

>> No.4807617

dazai or oe i guess

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>>4806233
you win

>> No.4807620

>>4807527
he looks like hitchens

>> No.4807625

I think I'd say Yukio Mishima.

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4807633

>yfw you realize this reactionary shit about Dumas not being Black is because /pol/faggots needed to invent some way to be above Django Unchained
I know you better than you know yourselves.

>> No.4807642

>>4805839


http://thosewhocansee.blog - spot.com/2012/02/black-history-month.html

>> No.4807647

Ann Frank

>> No.4807649 [DELETED] 

>>4807633

>mfw 90~% of 'black' achievements in history are thanks to the one drop rule.

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Leslie Marmon Silko

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>this thread

African-american culture is literally one of the most fascinating things to have ever happened in human history. The idea that some of you were actually born in the US and you didn't read/enjoy any piece of literature about their experience written by a black person is genuinely kind of disturbing.

>> No.4807655

Depends on your definition of white. If you don't think Slavs are white then probable Chekov or Gorky, if Spaniards aren't white then Calderon. If the Greeks aren't white then Aristophanes. If you actually mean people not from Europe or the United States and Canada unless they don't have fair skin then I would probably say Tadashi Suzuki. His writing on acting is monumentally important when hardly anybody has tried to move the art forward since Stanislavski. But he collaborated with Anne Bogart a lot so does that still count OP?

Honestly anyone who tries too hard to make sure their non-white heritage is a prominent part of their "message" while focusing on writing novels or producing plays for western audiences(to produce guilt or raise "awareness" of far off problems) is a hack. The human drama is universal; but the particulars are most effective for the audiences they might involve, not those removed.

>> No.4807656

>>4807489
I watch Archer, you don't have to explain to me what a quadroon is.

>> No.4807679

>>4807654
It's impossible to overstate how completely fucked American "culture" is. I mean, the African-American experience is the struggle to survive the most emotionally and physical stunted, violent, oppressive peoples that have ever walked the earth. The saddest thing is they're so conscious of their terrible history yet suppress it at every single instant of their fat, undereducated lives.

>> No.4807696 [DELETED] 

>>4807679

african americans were not people until they were enslaved

>no system of writing
>human

pick one

>> No.4807698

>>4807649
One day it's "too Black", the next it's "not Black enough." It's really amazing how you idiots invent these nonsensical concepts and warp your mind to them, only to turn them completely around without, somehow, losing the effect.

>> No.4807708

Author of the color purple.
Took me like 1 second

>favorite nonwhite
That is racists

>> No.4807710 [DELETED] 

It's impossible to overstate how completely fucked American "culture" is. I mean, the White-American experience is the struggle to survive the most emotionally and physical stunted, violent, primitive peoples that have ever walked the earth. The saddest thing is they're so conscious of their terrible history yet suppress it at every single instant of their whiny, undereducated lives.

>> No.4807711

>>4807698

so do you have a point or...

>> No.4807718

>>4807696
How very politically incorrect of you, you must be proud.

But the funny thing is, even if you actually hold views like that, it still doesn't explain why wouldn't you be interested in a narrative about slavery, or why'd you never pick a book written by a former revolutionary or something. So much stuff happened after they became, ahem, "human".

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>>4807710
>>4807679


this is your brain on propaganda.

>> No.4807726 [DELETED] 

>>4807718


im very interested in narratives about slavery http://radishmag.wordpress.com/2013/01/25/slavery-reconsidered/

>> No.4807737

>>4807679
>yet suppress it at every single instant of their fat, undereducated lives.

So it seems. I'd really to know why, but I'm afraid I'll just get a "I'm sick of white guilt!!" type of answer, as if they were obsessively studying non-european cultures in north america before the days of affirmative action.

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Looks straight out of Somalia to me. Not an inch of fair skin.

>> No.4807746

>>4807720
Blacks have been the subject of generational permanent chattel slavery, socially, politically, and religiously mandated and encourage pogroms, genocides, rape, and terrorism literally since the European ancestors of Whites started fucking around in the Americas (hundreds of years), how the fuck is that "propaganda"? Please kill yourself.

>> No.4807757

>>4807746
hey bro, empathy and respect for human life are pc and uncool now

>> No.4807773 [DELETED] 

>>4805730
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>> No.4807782

>>4807737
>I'd really to know why, but I'm afraid I'll just get a "I'm sick of white guilt!!" type of answer
But that IS the reason why. White Americans know that they sit pretty because of how nightmarish a society their grandparents made, kept, and forced themselves to not only accept but to love. They haven't developed the intellectual and emotional honesty to accept their history and try to work past it, so they end up continuing their history even though they consciously know they're wrong to do so. Unable to cope, they lash out and attack make up persecution stories to fit themselves into and supplant their victims' true narrative for a completely false one. Imagine this, sin continuously piled upon sin, but on the scale of millions of people, and you might see why Whites are so terrible as a people
.

>> No.4807785

>>4807746


its propaganda because it does not cohere with history. i suggest 'A South Side View of Slavery' by Nehemiah Adams (a northern abolitionist who traveled the south for several months) to begin with, and if you desire more, consider also: Charles Francis Adams Jr., Shall Cromwell Have a Statue? (1902); Adm. Raphael Semmes, Memoirs of Service Afloat (1869); and James Redpath, The Roving Editor (1859).

>> No.4807800

>>4807782
lol owned