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Are immigrants and refugees people of color? We might not like the label, but we can't afford to lose the racial analysis.(TO THE POINT)
TODAY, I COULD BE CONSIDERED a professional person of color because I've worked on race issues for more than 20 years. So colleagues are sometimes surprised that until I was 17, I was an Indian immigrant and a "minority."
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The transformation started in my second year of college. A Black freshman had been beaten by two white football players, sparking the kind of outrage that Black student leaders channeled into a tight campaign for campus policy changes. There had been meetings and a rally, and I had skipped them, just as I had skipped my school's Third World Transition Program, the pre-orientation for first-year students of color. ...
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