Hm…this may not be what you’re after but maybe “Erasure” by Percival Everett? It’s about blackness more than whiteness though. The protagonist is a intelligent man who writes near incomprehensible intelligent novels that don’t sell. What makes it harder is that he’s Black and he’s frustrated that the only Black experience accepted by society is stuff like Precious or The Wire.
I won’t say more but it’s pretty good satire.
panpopticon on
Here are a few recent comedies about gentrification, seen through the lens of education.
CLASS by Lucinda Rosenfeld is about a well-meaning white woman (literally a Karen), whose liberal ideas are challenged when her child’s school is rezoned and becomes more integrated.
THE GIFTED SCHOOL by Bruce Holsinger is about how the race to secure spots in a new school for gifted children tears a group of friends apart.
If you want more, ADMISSIONS by Joshua Harmon is a play about the head of admissions at a prep school whose son loses a college spot to a minority student, and how it unbalances her family.
DavidDWriter on
Don’t remember the author, but in “In Defense of Elitism,” a liberal New York Times columnist goes and lives for a while in deep MAGA Texas to try to understand how they got that way. Pretty dry and insightful.
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Hm…this may not be what you’re after but maybe “Erasure” by Percival Everett? It’s about blackness more than whiteness though. The protagonist is a intelligent man who writes near incomprehensible intelligent novels that don’t sell. What makes it harder is that he’s Black and he’s frustrated that the only Black experience accepted by society is stuff like Precious or The Wire.
I won’t say more but it’s pretty good satire.
Here are a few recent comedies about gentrification, seen through the lens of education.
CLASS by Lucinda Rosenfeld is about a well-meaning white woman (literally a Karen), whose liberal ideas are challenged when her child’s school is rezoned and becomes more integrated.
THE GIFTED SCHOOL by Bruce Holsinger is about how the race to secure spots in a new school for gifted children tears a group of friends apart.
If you want more, ADMISSIONS by Joshua Harmon is a play about the head of admissions at a prep school whose son loses a college spot to a minority student, and how it unbalances her family.
Don’t remember the author, but in “In Defense of Elitism,” a liberal New York Times columnist goes and lives for a while in deep MAGA Texas to try to understand how they got that way. Pretty dry and insightful.