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A Love Against A Love
Ester, a young Shona woman at the center of Danai Gurira’s play The Convert, leaves behind her ancestral traditions to avoid becoming the youngest of an old man’s many wives.…
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The imprint of race
“If race is a cultural category, why can’t you choose your identity?” my students asked over dinner last Wednesday. They were thinking through the news from Spokane, where it…
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Showing Up
This past weekend, we witnessed protests occurring all over the country, including Boston and Cambridge, and here at MIT. At the heart of the protests is a yearning, and…
