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#1 As a child growing up in the seventies and early eighties in New York, Wisconsin, and Northern Virginia, I was often the target of curiosity from white children and adults. They wanted to make sense of me, so they asked where I was from.

#2 I am the Wooly-Haired, Medium-Brown-skinned offspring typical when Blacks and whites have sex. I come from people who broke the rules, chose to live lives outside the box, and chose hope over hate as the arc of history was forced to bend a bit more toward justice.

#3 The Real American is a persona that emerged during the lead-up to the 2008 presidential election. He is a representation of a past era when white men could claim what was rightfully theirs with an air of ownership.

#4 I am the descendant of slaves who worked on a plantation in Charleston, South Carolina, in the late 1700s. I am the untallied, unpaid, and unrepented damages of one of America’s founding crimes.

Summary of Julie Lythcott-Haims's Real American

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