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The book ‘Becoming’ is perched on my porch table." class="bh nd oj c" width="700" height="909" loading="lazy"/></picture></div></div><figcaption class="ok ff ol nw nx om on bf b bg z du">Author’s Image. The book ‘Becoming’ is perched on my porch table.</figcaption></figure><p id="6f1c" class="pw-post-body-paragraph oo op hd oq b ig or os ot ij ou ov ow ox oy oz pa pb pc pd pe pf pg ph pi pj gw bk pk"><span class="l pl pm pn bo po pp pq pr ps fj">As</span> an Indian immigrant to the United States, I will never really know what it is to be Black in America. I can see the race dynamic play out all around me, including the intentional and unconscious biases I experience as a non-white person as I move around in society in my daily life.</p><p id="8de0" class="pw-post-body-paragraph oo op hd oq b ig or os ot ij ou ov ow ox oy oz pa pb pc pd pe pf pg ph pi pj gw bk">Coming from enslaved ancestors, carrying that trauma in one’s DNA is something I will not even pretend to fully understand. But books that are brilliantly written by minds that can put the felt emotions into succinct words have the power to offer insight and enhance understanding of the world they have dwelled in.</p><p id="3d1c" class="pw-post-body-paragraph oo op hd oq b ig or os ot ij ou ov ow ox oy oz pa pb pc pd pe pf pg ph pi pj gw bk">That’s exactly what Michelle Obama’s memoir <a class="af pt" href="https://michelleobamabooks.com/becoming" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank"><em class="pu">Becoming</em></a> does, allowing us to enter her world of lived experiences.</p><p id="ba38" class="pw-post-body-paragraph oo op hd oq b ig or os ot ij ou ov ow ox oy oz pa pb pc pd pe pf pg ph pi pj gw bk">The chapter in her book where she discusses racial identity was a particularly eye-opening one. She talks about the racism she faces within and around herself, especially upon embarking on her journey at Princeton University.</p><h2 id="6898" class="pv pw hd bf px py pz dy qa qb qc ea qd ox qe qf qg pb qh qi qj pf qk ql qm hj bk">An excerpt of her story</h2><p id="ce1c" class="pw-post-body-paragraph oo op hd oq b ig qn os ot ij qo ov ow ox qp oz pa pb qq pd pe pf qr ph pi pj gw bk">In the early 1980s, a seventeen-year-old, Michelle Robinson, reaches the campus of Princeton with her two…</p></div></div></div></div></section></div></div></article></div><div class="l"></div><footer class="qs qt qu qv qw qx qy qz gv ab q ra jk c"><div class="l ae"><div class="ab cb"><div class="ci bh fz ga gb gc"><div class="ab cp rb"><div class="ab q lu"><div class="rc l"><span class="l rd re rf e d"><div class="ab q lu lv"><div class="pw-multi-vote-icon fj gt lw lx ly"><span><a class="af ag ah ai aj ak al am an ao ap aq ar as at" data-testid="footerClapButton" rel="noopener follow" 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