Recognizing being white-passing as a privilegePosted in Articles, Autobiography, Campus Life, Canada, Media Archive, Passing, Social Justice on 2020-06-26 01:43Z by Steven |
Recognizing being white-passing as a privilege
The Queen’s Journal
Kingston, Ontario, Canada
2020-06-01
Hareer Al-Qaragolie
![]() In her first year at Queen’s, Hareer realized her responsibility to her community. Credit: Hareer Al-Qaragolie |
Where I stand as a proudly-identifying Arab Muslim
I was born in Baghdad to Iraqi parents who fled war to Amman, Jordan. Although I grew up as part of a marginalized Iraqi community in Jordan, I was also part of the majority of the population, adapting to the Jordanian accent and identifying as both an Arab and a Muslim.
In Jordan, I never thought of my privilege beyond the fact that I was part of the Iraqi diaspora.
However, through my experiences at Queen’s, I’ve had to add another definition to what privilege means to me: being white-passing…
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