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Analysis Of Don T Erase My Race By Aliya Khan

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Throughout this class, we have read many articles which show how an individual’s overlapping identities effects their lives and their hierarchical position in our society. The article that stood out to me was “Don’t Erase my Race” by Aliya Khan. Khan is a biracial woman, half Pakistani/ half white, who lives in a predominately white community. Khan’s biracial identity in a white community has presented her with a very different experience compared to the white women living in the same area. One major social aspect that she struggled with was finding how to identify herself. She described how her family lived fairly white and that her father often “underplayed their own ethnicity.” Khan goes on to explain that she had never even been to Pakistan,
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