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Explorations in Ethnic Studies

1984

White Like Me

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White Like Me: A Problem Or Plus, Ann Irwin Jan 1984

White Like Me: A Problem Or Plus, Ann Irwin

Explorations in Ethnic Studies

In a tiny Iowa rural community, stuck like a mud dauber's nest on the banks of the Little Sioux River, a WASP was born and brought up thinking everyone in the world was just like her. As she went on to be educated, she was told she was the product of a culturally deprived childhood. Everyone was not like her. Didn't she know people were different? Didn't she know there were minorities in the world?