Page 61: "'Injun Summer,' by John T. McCutcheon, who was a 1932 Pulitizer Prize winner. McCutcheon's poem gives a sedate visual depiction of autumn in the Midwest, but because it depicts Native Americans in an insensitive way, Leona would always lecture her daughter before she used to read it to her."
(Virginia Lathan says: Perhaps if we're going to share a creative piece of writing
that some might find offensensive,
we need to preface our sharing of it with a compassionate statement to those who might be offended or hurt by it.)
(Virginia Lathan says: Perhaps if we're going to share a creative piece of writing
that some might find offensensive,
we need to preface our sharing of it with a compassionate statement to those who might be offended or hurt by it.)
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