Podcast
On Being with Krista Tippett
This book was mentioned in a discussion about the question, "Where are you from?" and its various interpretations, particularly how it can be used to gauge someone's racial identity and origins, and was used as an example of how this question can have very different, and sometimes conflicting meanings.
Then this book, the Traumarchan is like the opposite side of that, which is the immigrant. Not me in this case, but an immigrant I was writing about who gets shot in the face by a white supremacist af...
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This book was mentioned in a discussion about the question, "Where are you from?" and its various interpretations, particularly how it can be used to gauge someone's racial identity and origins, and was used as an example of how this question can have very different, and sometimes conflicting meanings.
Then this book, the Traumarchan is like the opposite side of that, which is the immigrant. Not me in this case, but an immigrant I was writing about who gets shot in the face by a white supremacist after 9-11. And the only thing he heard from the shooter right before he got shot was where you from.