{"id":10911,"date":"2016-08-04T15:38:12","date_gmt":"2016-08-04T19:38:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/?page_id=10911"},"modified":"2016-08-26T12:25:28","modified_gmt":"2016-08-26T16:25:28","slug":"writer-varadhan","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/journal\/past-issues\/issue-8\/varadhan\/writer-varadhan\/","title":{"rendered":"From the Writer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This was a paper born of frustration. Written as my final essay for Professor Jessica Bozek\u2019s WR 100 section, \u201cReading Disaster,\u201d its contents were a culmination of all the injustice and racial politics that we had spent the semester dissecting. What most agitated me, I believe, was the concept of respectability politics\u2014the idea that a black person\u2019s life must meet certain standards of behavior in order to be considered valuable. We\u2019d picked at this topic throughout the semester, but for me, Ta-Nehisi Coates\u2019s dismissal of the American Dream in <em>Between the World and Me<\/em> was what truly brought it into focus. It was through his work that I addressed my frustration, tackling the notion of the Dream where I most often saw it: threaded across the American media.<\/p>\n<p><strong>REETU VARADHAN\u00a0<\/strong>is a rising sophomore in the College of Arts and Sciences, majoring in computer science. She was born and raised in the DC area and has always enjoyed writing as a pastime. She would like to thank her family, for always encouraging her to have an open worldview, and her friends, for their endless debates on this topic, without which this essay could never have existed.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This was a paper born of frustration. Written as my final essay for Professor Jessica Bozek\u2019s WR 100 section, \u201cReading Disaster,\u201d its contents were a culmination of all the injustice and racial politics that we had spent the semester dissecting. What most agitated me, I believe, was the concept of respectability politics\u2014the idea that a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4801,"featured_media":0,"parent":10843,"menu_order":1,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10911"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4801"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10911"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10911\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11088,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10911\/revisions\/11088"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/10843"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/writingprogram\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10911"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}