Dominican novelist Junot Diaz explains why diversity matters in the choice of literature and authors that students read.
“You look at this country and you look at this world and you need to understand it in complex ways,” Diaz said, citing diverse gender and race perspectives as critical to that understanding. “And part of that complexity is, of course, questions of gender: If you don’t want to deal and relate and think about what it means to be a woman in this planet — you’re going to have serious problems. The same with dealing with the question of ethnicity and race.”
Check out one of my favorite novelists explain why diversity in literature matters here:
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