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Q: Theres no slavery in America these days. How do you handle that in your novel?
I thought a lot about what the greatest social evil of our time might look like to future generations. One of the things I came up with is our current hostility towards immigrantsin a country of immigrants! We can look back with the hindsight of history and chide our ancestors for such racist policies as the Chinese Exclusion Act, which closed the door to Chinese immigration at the turn of the century. But because were living in these times, its harder to see the racism underlying our current attitudes about "the war on illegal immigration" and the isolationism that some factions in this country would prefer. |
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