Growing up in a predominantly Caucasian community, I was often fed Eurocentric literature in school and consumed media mainly centered around white narratives. Works by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mark Twain, John Steinbeck and Ernest Hemingway dominated my English classes. I was always hearing about what the white man…
ZOMG BOOKS. As an English major at a predominantly non-English major school, I am constantly asked by others about my future aspirations in life. Do I want to be a teacher? A writer? A starving artist on the corner of Santa Monica living in a ragged (but poetically…