Tag: race
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Parenting Challenges: Race, Color, Identity and the Need to Belong
I’m biracial. I love being biracial. I love dancing in different worlds, being unique, leaving strangers wondering. I’m entertained by the many ways people try to ascertain my racial makeup, some with rude frankness and others with a subtlety so profound that I’m not even sure what they’re asking. It wasn’t always this way. There…
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What Are You?
What are you? Not my favorite question. Still, some people find a way to ask it with more tact, so here’s my answer.
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The First Race Conversation
When the first race conversation arrived, I wasn’t at all prepared. Worse, it was far suckier than I imagined it being…