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Kerri Wakefield
Ann Arbor, MI
Understanding Race Project- University of Michigan

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Searching for a way to feel

More Than Just a White Male

Yes I take up space, and?

Hmong American muaj lub siab tawv

These People want too many rights

My African Curls, Scottish White Skin

Ownership of historic racism helps heal

Being Christian and racist is an oxymoron.

Irish descent, why hate me blacks?

Immigrant they don't tell to leave

My ancestors? Forgotten. Wish that’d change.

Only one race. Unified human race.

You're Indian. Do you speak Indian?

Race is beautiful! Racism is learned.

There should be more black physicists.

Embedded fear of most black males

Not resolved until white people change.

Wrestling with race is lifelong work.

Passed for White; woke to shame.

I wish I hadn't said that....

Old, white, but beginning to understand

Wow you speak english very well!

More to me than you think

Whites: reject guilt and self-hatred.

I was fragile now I’m stronger!

Rene's Mom said she couldn't come....

My tastebuds tell me I'm Japanese

Where are all the basketball courts?

Your family's not inbred...are you?

Like you, gingers do have souls.

Do you have a foreign name too?

I don't care about blacks anymore.

Damn Yankees don't go back home

I believe in the hyphen!

It's who we are on Earth

Equality, color doesn’t matter, peace, acceptance

Shouldn't Christ's Church be more colorful?

Homo sapiens; are we getting closer?

Despite our privilege, we are killed.

First Black Female Air Traffic Controller

Pride/relief for my childhood hometown.

Native Education: Moving beyond the Asterisk*

Southern farm raised, doesn't mean hate

White, Not allowed to be proud

Indian-American but live like white

Black Guy In A Crazy World

Passing under streetlights... shouldn't we nod?

The ocean does not see race.

Black man loves fried chicken watermelon

While there's no finishline: Americans All

Privileged, What exactly does that MEAN?!?

Hesci, hello, I am Poarch Creek.

I'm a red headed Puerto Rican

No One Can Stop Chinese Kid

White, Korean, southern, AND atheist

Cannot let it affect my teaching

I'm black. so I am dangerous?

Stuck between two races..fitting neither.

Human Spirit - Our One Equal Tie

You're Indian; do you speak Hindu?

I'm not mad, I'm just exhausted.

Cops can't see us with you

Why is the pool filled up?

In galaxy only human race exists.

I’m the mother of these children!

No, I am not a foreigner.

Tulsa: deliberate obfuscation...perpetual Black suppression.

I do not understand whats race

Black Woman Who Loves to Swim!

It’s less than meets the eye

Class can make white privilege invisible.

Yes, I know how to swim.

You are the best among us

Appalachian means none of your business.

Race is nothing. Family is everything.

I won't forget them--six million

I will believe Black people's stories.

Inequality caused by fear and ignorance.

Adobo Beef Stew Rice Potatoes: Dinner

Blue eyes, Latina soul, Challenge preconceptions.

Trying on racism felt so weird

The real prejudice today is poverty

Glad my biracial grandchildren are girls

The hand I was randomly dealt.

Annie/Grandma/black/white hands entwined

Externally, Internally; We're All Alike, Human!

You're Filipino... are you a nurse?

Bohunks were not white in Nebraska.

Their house smells like anyone else's

Why is peace, love, understanding difficult
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In Conversation with Ta-Nehisi Coates at AtlanticLive New York Ideas 2015

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Ta-Nehisi Coates reads from his new book in conversation with Michele Norris at Lannan Foundation lecture in Santa Fe

NPR's Morning Edition features: 'My Name Is Jamaal ... I'm White'

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Michele Norris & Jenee Desmond Harris, How we talk about race: What word choice says about identity

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Ferguson Should Be More Than a Moment

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SPJ honors Norris for exceptional service to journalism

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Michele Norris leads learning opportunity

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Grand Rapids Community College Social Sciences Department sits down with Michele Norris.

Brooklyn Museum Joins The Race Card Project

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Michele Norris' address at Sacramento State's Convocation
SPOTLIGHT SCHOOL

"We are seventh graders at High Tech Middle Media Arts striving for change, so silence is not an option."
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