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The Gray Area with Sean Illing cover image

Can race be transcended?

The Gray Area with Sean Illing

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Is Your Racial Performance a Kind of Performance?

When I held my daughter Marlow in 2013 is when my sense of the way race works fell apart. And to reiterate, I didn't think here I have a white child. No one in the street can look at her and perceive that. Why does it mean to call myself black if I can produce a child that looks like that? We just happen to be living on the very margins where they fall apart.

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