“You Just Said ‘We’”: The complexity of not being White and not being a person of color.Posted in Articles, Identity Development/Psychology, Media Archive, Passing, United States on 2014-06-02 19:51Z by Steven |
“You Just Said ‘We’”: The complexity of not being White and not being a person of color.
Nick Franco
May 2014
Nick Franco, Coordinator for the Student Affairs/SOLES Collaborative
University of San Diego
This past Tuesday night, I did a mock presentation of my dissertation proposal for my dissertation seminar course. It went fairly well, and feedback from the professor and my colleagues was really, really helpful.
During the Q&A/debrief portion of my presentation, I talked about White people and said “we,” suggesting that I was a White person speaking on behalf of my fellow White people. A colleague pointed it out, and I really wasn’t surprised or upset about it. I simply responded with, “Well, my own racial identity is a separate dissertation.”…
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