
A whiteness that's only skin deep
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Are Both Your Parents Indian?
relina joseph is a critical race scholar and professor of american ethnic studies at the uni city of washington. She says there's nerro science behind our brains kind of tapping out when we don't know how to categorize, right? And so for those us who don't fit into uneasily categorized, racialized looks, we're constantly confronted by the confusion of other people. For me, living with albanism feels like perpetual oster sindrome,. I am indian. But when i meet new people, or if i'm in a new place, i get in my head about how i'm going to be perceived. Is there a place for
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