Why So Many Are Stuck in the “Other” Box
Notes from America with Kai Wright
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You Don't Want to Be Other, You Want to Be Normal
i was born at a time when black parents were choosing african names, avnt just out of a book a to try to sort of own blackness as opposed to negroness in the united states. I think it's true for a lot of immigrants of color, a this of immigrant families of colour, this choosing of names to try to down play the other. And even language as well, which is overse like a complicated aspect of identity. Like, it sounds bizarre to say i feel more arab the better that my arabic language skills are, but it's kind of true. We were taught arabic when we were young, and then for we stopped going to
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