On Race and Repair

A Güero Reads Plato in Jerusalem

Public Seminar, August 2019

I moved to Los Angeles at the age of eight and a half and went into fourth grade, where I was asked to check off my ethnicity. I read the choices: Caucasian / Anglo-Saxon, African-American, Hispanic, Asian / Pacific-Islander. I had no idea what any of those meant, so I went over to the world map and looked for Israel, the country where I was born. . .

Read at publication ↗

© David Stromberg