In a column entitled “Speaking as a White Male,” David Brooks writes that Americans have political beliefs assigned to them on the basis of their identity. Brooks attributes this to the rise of “perspectivism,” or the notion that our ideas are formed as a result of our experiences. Because of this, a white writer would not be able to adequately portray the experience of a black woman in a fiction novel. But has it always been this way?
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