Critic · American
3 quotes
The problem of racial difference in America - and in modern life more broadly - is always presented as an economic, political, biological or cultural problem. But I want to say that it's at least as much a philosophical and imaginative disaster.
I will no longer enter into the all-American skin game that demands you select a box and define yourself by it.
Our identities really are a constant negotiation between the story we tell about ourselves and the narrative our societies like to recite.
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