![]() What about academia? What does Beatty think of black intellectuals and, particularly, the attempt to sanitize Twain's classic? ![]() What do you think of the white woman who utters this: "ou're a beautiful woman who just happens to be black, and you're far too smart not to know that it isn't race that's the problem but class"? What do you think of her statement? What do you think the author thinks of it?ħ. What is the purpose of instituting slavery? What does Me hope to accomplish by doing so?Ħ. How off-putting, or difficult, did you find the first 300 pages or so of this book? Was it difficult to follow the narrative thread, to get your "fictional footing"? Why might the author have opened his book with this stylistic technique?ĥ. What is the thematic significance (and humor) in the fact that the father of the book's narrator dropped the double-e from his last name, resulting in the surname Me-and, thus, the title of the Supreme Court case, Me vs. in his lengthy Barnes & Noble review, Stefan Beck says that The Sellout will "shock all of us into reexamining what we think we know about race in America." Did the book have that effect on you? Did it alter how you, personally, view black-white relations in the US?ģ. ![]() Do you find this book offensive? Why or why not? What other readers might take offense at The Sellout? Why is Paul Beatty's language so incendiary?Ģ. ![]()
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