Sunday, November 2, 2008

Awakening

Korey talks about how college courses helped her to understand inequality, and challenged what she had learned as a child.

Saturday, November 1, 2008

I had to learn that

Clare recalls how she learned about ethnicity in her own family, highlighting how we learn to think about difference, that race-based thinking is anything but natural.

Even now

Unika describes how race-based thinking extends even to family matters.

Parts of who I am

Jessa talks about the ordinariness, and extraordiniariness, of ethnicity.

What are you

Amy recounts being asked about her ethnicity, and being confused about what that meant.

Solid as concrete

Josh relates how some of the people he knows in rural Arkansas think of the racial divide as timeless and unchanging.

Tuesday, October 28, 2008

Always aware of race

Brian describes how he is always aware of race, and has been since he was a boy visiting family members in Milwaukee.