![]() ![]() Police arrested him for possessing a homemade clock that his school said looked suspicious. What real-life news events shaped the narrative? The story of 14-year-old Ahmed Mohamed in Texas comes to mind. All of that was swirling around in my mind. ![]() It made me think about which victims are advocated for, and in my research I found so much erasure of people of color, Black trans women, and Indigenous women in particular. In 2019, the clearance rate for murders in Chicago if the victim was white was 47% if the victim was Hispanic it was 33%, and if the victim was Black, it was only about 20%. ![]() If you look at the the clearance rate for police solving murders in the city, WBEZ found that it’s much higher if you’re white. Hollow Fires is set in Chicago-a diverse city with huge immigrant populations. I wanted to examine how race is involved in the way that the press, police, and people on social media treat the victims and perpetrators of crime. What were you trying to say here about identity? ![]() At one point in the novel, Safiya shares how she hated how everyone forgot Jawad’s name and instead referred to him generically as an Arab American teen or son of Iraqi refugees. ![]()
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