Just rocked in from Audiography and saw you talking books. I haven't read it yet but my best mate is raving about heading to the US to be Ehrenreich's love slave (a bit of eyebrow raiser since I know he's never had sex with a woman).
What can I say, the "Black Like Me" thing works, I don't mind being condescended to (I've become unemployed recently) if it gets the word out. Australians believe the employment figures, they believe the stitch ups they see on the current affairs programs. People like hearing biographical stuff because it's more palatable than reading a bunch of boring stats. Reading about a *person* humanises the situation. But yes, I agree, we also need to hear from people who actually *have to* work in those sorts of situations. I just wonder if anyone would read them.
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Date: 2007-01-18 11:31 pm (UTC)What can I say, the "Black Like Me" thing works, I don't mind being condescended to (I've become unemployed recently) if it gets the word out. Australians believe the employment figures, they believe the stitch ups they see on the current affairs programs. People like hearing biographical stuff because it's more palatable than reading a bunch of boring stats. Reading about a *person* humanises the situation. But yes, I agree, we also need to hear from people who actually *have to* work in those sorts of situations. I just wonder if anyone would read them.