by Shuhita Bhattacharjee, a graduate student in English at the University of Iowa – “Looking at Our Lives Through the Lens of Race” project
It has been a while since I have wanted to let this out. But it took me five extended plane journeys back and forth to USA, before I could put pen [...]
Looking At Our Lives Through the Lens of Race project
Here is a story by Marianna Sommerfeld, a retired social worker who lives in Cambridge, MA. She wrote it when she was 85 years old.
Looking At Our Lives Through the Lens of Race project
This is Sarah Miller’s story:
The first time I remember realizing there was a negative value in our society attached to being Black was when I was abut ten years old. My family had recently moved to Baltimore and lived in a neighborhood that was pretty much [...]
Looking at Our Lives Through the Lens of Race project
This story is by Aimee Sands, a Boston-based documentary filmmaker: her most recent film is ”What Makes Me White”?
When I was growing up in Westchester County, my grandparents used to drive out from New York City in their gold Impala, pick us up, and drive my sister and me [...]
Looking at Our Lives Through the Lens of Race Project
A Cambridge (MA) Writer’s story
Here’s my earliest race story, which is told affectionately in my family, but which I recently came to see differently.
Looking at our Lives Through the Lens of Race Project
Carol Shilakowsky’s story
Growing Up “White” in America
by Carol Shilakowsky
I grew up in Waltham (MA) in the early 60s to mid 60s: no blacks in school and none that I noticed in town, although there was one man who married an Italian woman and both were dark-skinned, said to be “mulatto,” meaning mixed race.
I came from that [...]
