Requiem for the Orchard & My American Kundiman: Western Art Was Believed to Be Inherently More “
From my experience in both high school and college, the literary material offered by almost all my English literature classes was curated from works written by poets and authors from the Western world and white backgrounds. There remains an assumption that Western art in general is inherently more “educated” and “intelligent”, but that is evolving towards a more inclusive collection of work from writers of color. We seek a reflection of ourselves in fiction, and I was dreadin