"I began to feel more and more alarmed as the notoriety swirled around me. I did not want any of this, for it had little to do with me as an artist and far too much to do with me as an ethnic minority. I felt trapped in sociology and politics. I am, of course, enough of a realist to know that, given the racial dilemmas in our country, the situation could hardly have been otherwise. Cold comfort indeed…I am glad to remember how emphatically I insisted that it was my intention to do what I could for all American poets without regard to ethnic backgrounds.’”
—from Poetry’s Catbird Seat: The Consultantship in Poetry in the English Language at the Library of Congress, 1937-1987, by William McGuire, Library of Congress, 1988
Hint: Look for the references at the end.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erasure_(novel)