Tell Me Who You Are

A Brief History of Whiteness

How one category became the norm and one ‘the other’

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ZORA
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3 min readJun 17, 2019

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By Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi

TThe racial categories that we’re familiar with developed only 200 years ago, primarily by England and Spain. Otherwise cut off from the rest of the world, England kept on invading Ireland, labeling the people as…

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