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Jennifer R.: “Probably not, because they’d assume that as a whitey, I’m going to write for other whiteys.”

Well, I think it’s not even that. It’s assumed that white people are writing for everybody; white lit-ra-cha is presumed to be at least potentially universal, where black authors get subjected to demands that they “make a decision” about whether they’re writing a Race Novel or stuff that white people might be expected to read and take seriously.