{"id":126148,"date":"2019-02-12T10:35:11","date_gmt":"2019-02-12T18:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=126148"},"modified":"2019-02-12T10:35:47","modified_gmt":"2019-02-12T18:35:47","slug":"tom-wolfes-race-realism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=126148","title":{"rendered":"Tom Wolfe&#8217;s Race Realism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/an-appreciation-tom-wolfe-1526678237?mod=searchresults&amp;page=33&amp;pos=11\">Ben Yagoda writes in the WSJ<\/a>: &#8220;While \u201cThe Bonfire of the Vanities\u201d (1987) was a tour de force\u2014not coincidentally set in New York, his adoptive home town, whose streets he had pounded for so many years\u2014I wasn\u2019t able to get through the three novels that followed it. The satire sometimes turned to meanness, and Wolfe\u2019s racial perspective was an obstacle. He didn\u2019t depict people of color (a term he surely loathed) as villains so much as irredeemably different and other. (This was apparent from the start of his career. Describing the Playboy mansion in the introduction to an early collection, he said it had \u201chuge black guards or major-domos inside. Nubian slaves, I kept saying to myself. One of the blacks led me up a grand staircase . . .\u201d)&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ben Yagoda writes in the WSJ: &#8220;While \u201cThe Bonfire of the Vanities\u201d (1987) was a tour de force\u2014not coincidentally set in New York, his adoptive home town, whose streets he had pounded for so many years\u2014I wasn\u2019t able to get &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/?p=126148\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[34,29738],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126148","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blacks","category-tom-wolfe"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126148","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=126148"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126148\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":126149,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126148\/revisions\/126149"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126148"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126148"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lukeford.net\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126148"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}