StegosaurusAnother section that made an impact was his decision to capitalize people who were White. I'll give his reasoning attached to this, but many writers / editors who choose to "racify" people by turning an adjective about their skin or ethnicity into a grand noun scares me. Black. Asian. Latino. If you do it to them, do it to EVERYONE. Please.
Here's the section of #Undertow where he explains his reasoning about describing some people as "White."
White people need to be more visible? Yes, to themselves, argues Princeton historian Nell Painter, author of A History of White People. “White Americans have had the choice of being something vague, something unraced and separate from race. A capitalized ‘White’ challenges that freedom, by unmasking ‘Whiteness’ as an American racial identity as historically important as ‘Blackness.’”