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//Notes From No Man's Land// is a collection of experiences written by Eula Biss. Throughout this work, Biss intertwines themes and ideas from the past and the present as she analyzes what race is to our society. At its core, this book is an interrogation of racism and racial ignorance in America. Biss introduces many insightful ideas about how we can handle issues of race in our lives. Biss is not content with color-blind attitudes that our society has embraced. Instead Biss wants to heal the scars of racism that still exist in post-civil rights America and create social progress in diverse communities. According to Biss, it is our fears of inherent racial differences that let America's racial and cultural wounds persist, and it is our own personal identity that often keeps us from connecting with others. By providing her unique insight of situations in our society, Biss advocates the fall of the boundaries that separate racial groups in America.