History shapes my writing. History trickles down into my work, some times it pours. There was a vicious anti-south Asian feeling present in this country during the seventies. Then we heard how a South Asian man was pushed from the subway platform. And I saw how some students were treated in my school, my classroom.
Historical moments haunt the text.
In your own way, you write with a consciousness of race. Describe that consciousness. Race defines so much of you. I try to reveal this in my work, the quiet moments. Come to the Paradise was supposed to be about the internment but Dennis Quaid was the star, Dances with Wolves starred Kevin Costner, Cry Freedom , a film about Steven Biko, starred Kevin Kline.