I’m referring to the forms that ask you to list your ethnicity. I usually put “Other,” just to push us one nanometer closer to a post-racial society. And now I read in The Rest Is Noise, by Alex Ross, a confusing description of the music scene in New York during the 1920s and 30s, when “Jewish, African-American, and even Caucasian composers were working shoulder to shoulder, trading ideas, borrowing themes, plundering the past, and feeding off the present.” Did I miss something?
About Me
- Name: Dean Olsher
- Location: Queens, NY
Author of FROM SQUARE ONE: A MEDITATION, WITH DIGRESSIONS, ON CROSSWORDS - hardcover from Scribner and spoken-word adaptation (with rich sound design and original music) from Random House Audio.
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I'm sorry to have to break it to you, Dean, but Jews are now classified as native Australians. Are your didgeridoo skills up to par?