Phenomenologically Fucked: Percival Everett
Alex Abramovich, 19 November 2009
I don’t believe in race. I believe there are people who will shoot me or hang me or cheat me and try to stop me because they do believe in race, because of my brown skin, curly hair, wide nose and slave ancestors. But that’s just the way it is.
Thelonius ‘Monk’ Ellison, in Percival Everett’s Erasure
Race is America’s most enduring fiction. And for all the...