Historian Noel Ignatiev argues that whiteness is a set of economic and political choices.
“Ultimately, to be white was a moral choice,” writes James Baldwin.
Just over a year after moving to Uganda, writes Raksha Vasudevan, she’d made her choice.
Read this moving, insightful essay Vasudevan wrote about being an India-born, Canada-raised woman of color being treated as white in Uganda.
https://www.offassignment.com/wids/raksha-vasudevan
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