By the start of next class, please read Incognegro and post to Google Drive a one-paragraph response to the following:
Before he sets out for Tupelo to rescue his brother, Zane Pinchback declares: "Race doesn’t really exist. Race is just a bunch of rules meant to keep us on the bottom. Race is a strategy. The rest is just people acting. Playing roles. That’s what white folks never get. They don’t think they have accents. They don’t think they eat ethnic foods. Their music is classical. They think they’re just normal. That they are the universal and that everyone else is an odd deviation from form. That’s what makes them so easy to infiltrate."
What does Zane mean by calling race a "strategy"? How does Zane's "strategic" definition of race differ from that of the white people he encounters?
Be sure to base your response on specific pages and panels of text, and be ready to direct us to them in class.
