A PUBLISHING racism row has further intensified. Poet Kate Clanchy, whose once-lauded memoir Some Kids I Taught and What they Taught Me, was recalled over ‘racist’ descriptions of ethnic minority children, this week attempted to accuse her critics of similar caricatures.
In a piece for UnHerd, Clanchy claimed one of her main critics, Monisha Rajesh, had some “chilly and unpleasant” racialised stereotypes in her travel book Around India in 80 Trains. Clanchy said: “I didn’t like the images Rajesh used, but I would defend to the death her right to use them.”
