“Through the years, I stopped feeling pressured to either be less Japanese or more Japanese, and decided just to be. It became easier when I found someone who helped me remain intact.” Hayat Norimine describes what it was like to grow up as an only child in a Japanese-Syrian household in Pullman, a town in […]
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Posted inCurrent Events, Nonfiction, Quotes
Everyone’s Welcome, But Some People Are More Welcome Than Others
“Well, you might as well come and live with me now,” her employer said. “You gonna be mine eventually.”
Posted inEditor's Pick
“We Just Feel Like We Don’t Belong Here Anymore”
Think it’s hard for the white working class in rural America? Try being a person of color.
Posted inArts & Culture, Blog Post, Reading List
Failed Promises: A ‘Bachelorette’ Reading List
This was the year ‘The Bachelorette’ tried to take on race. Things did not go well.
Posted inEssays & Criticism
Innocence Abroad
“I’d had no idea that we had ever had to define our identities at all, because to me, white Americans were born fully formed, completely detached from any sort of complicated past.”
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What a Fraternity Hazing Death Revealed About the Painful Search for an Asian-American Identity
Jay Caspian Kang reports on the death of Michael Deng, a college freshman who died while rushing an Asian-American fraternity, and examines the history of oppression against Asians in the U.S. and how it has shaped a marginalized identity.
Posted inCurrent Events, Quotes
The Great Alt-Right Pile-On of Tommy Curry
“The goal, however, was the same as ever: fear. And it worked.”
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Who’s Left to Defend Tommy Curry?
A black philosopher at Texas A&M thought forcing a public discussion about race and violence was his job. Turns out people didn’t want to hear it.
Posted inQuotes, Uncategorized
How ‘Jane Crow’ Is Ravaging Families of Color
Authorities in New York City are using foster care as punishment against poor, non-white families.
Posted inCurrent Events, Quotes
The Colorblind Whitewashers of American History
Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw offers a sharp rebuke to those who would declare our country “post-racial.”