In this personal essay, Dara Lurie reflects on what she discovered about her own racism while living for ten months at a state-run home for disadvantaged children.
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What Are You?
A personal essay in which Valerie Vande Panne writes about learning why she never quite passed as white growing up, despite allegedly being the product of two caucasian parents. She recalls being questioned all her life about her racial and cultural identity; finally learning through a DNA test that her father wasn’t who she thought […]
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Finding My Identity By the Light of My Mother’s Menorah
A personal essay in which Santi Elijah Holley, the African American son of a white mother, revisits Hannukahs past with his Jewish forebears.
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Finding My Identity By the Light of My Mother’s Menorah
The African American son of a white mother, Santi Elijah Holley revisits Hannukahs past with his Jewish forebears.
Posted inEditor's Pick, Essays & Criticism, Nonfiction
Finding My Identity By the Light of My Mother’s Menorah
The African American son of a white mother, Santi Elijah Holley revisits Hannukahs past with his Jewish forebears.
Posted inNonfiction
On Identity, Miyazaki, and Japanese Bathhouses
On belonging — and not belonging — in two worlds at once.
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What Miyazaki’s Heroines Taught Me About My Mixed-Race Identity
On the wonder and strangeness of occupying a perpetually in-between space.
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Raising Brown Boys in Post-9/11 America
Sorayya Khan recalls racist threats to her young sons after the 2001 attacks, and worries about them as young men living in ‘Trumpistan.’