Katherine Boo is a journalist from the New Yorker who has just published an unusual piece of journalism covering the slums of India. The NY Times reviews it here. Apropos of our discussions about how to represent the "other" and why, check out her last quote in the article:
“I respect the division of labor,” she said. “My job is to lay it out clearly, not to give my policy prescriptions.” She added: “Very little journalism is world changing. But if change is to happen, it will be because people with power have a better sense of what’s happening to people who have none.”
For extra credit, look up Boo's new book or any books by Ted Conover or George Orwell. Read the book and write a review, focusing especially on how and why they represent the disadvantaged in society.
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