Description
McCallum beautifully blurs the boundaries of race and identity in this essay. She details her time as a child in Jamaica where the race was a giant constellation of potential. In the essay, she laments that only when she came to America, did race and identity become a forced binary – black or white. Given recent events – Black Lives Matter, Freddie Gray, Ferguson, Jamar Clark – and increased public attention on issues of race in America, how does McCallum’s essay contribute to the discussion?