Tag: The Columbia Spectator

  • Two halves, one American whole The Columbia Spectator 2016-11-16 Luciana Siracusano Halfie. That’s the endearing term I use to explain my ethnic and cultural heritage when people don’t know what to make of my facial features. My father is a third-generation Italian-Irish-American, and my mother is Korean and immigrated here in her 20s, so I’m…

  • The Mixed-Race in-betweeners The Columbia Spectator New York, New York 2015-11-12 Keenan Smith I am Mixed-Race. I am both Black and white. I am also American and have therefore been raised in a culture that seems to be constantly divided along racial boundaries, whether they are in campus diversity and inclusion programs or identity-based organizations,…