Book Recommendation: Our Hidden Conversations by Michele Norris
"Will my children look White enough?" "The melting pot is a lie." "Gay, but at least I'm White." "Yellow outside, White inside, adopted Twinkie." "Wouldn't have been White 100-years ago." These are but some of the statements Norris has collected over 14 years. In the last 14 years, Michele Norris has received hundreds of thousands replies to a simple, and yet complex, prompt: "Race. Your Story. 6 Words. Please Send." This book is only a small sample of the stories Norris has
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