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Growing Up White

Posted on February 15, 2016February 14, 2016 by Abigail Clauhs

It’s funny how racial identity works. Especially whiteness. Especially when you’re taught, implicitly and overwhelmingly, that white is the norm. It’s funny how it’s not until you’re older�... Read More

Statues Will Never Be Enough

Posted on November 30, 2015November 29, 2015 by Abigail Clauhs

It was the summer of 2012. I was nineteen years old, working as an intern in Washington, DC—that swamp of politics, and humidity, and the slow-moving Potomac. The Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial ha... Read More

Arab Like Me: Rachel Dolezal and My Anxious Jewish Mask

Posted on July 30, 2015July 29, 2015 by Ilona Gerbakher

Am I the Jewish Rachel Dolezal? I was sitting in my East Jerusalem apartment in a Moroccan djellaba, Abdel Halim Hafez warbling from the stereo, sipping mint tea and reading a New Yorker article about... Read More

Brown Like Me

Posted on July 10, 2012 by Phillipe Copeland

Salon.com has an interesting piece by Clara Germani about growing up Mexican American. Her story features a tragicomic moment of self-mutilation: When I was 10, I showed up at the breakfast table one ... Read More