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When citizenship doesn't protect from nativist hostility

My family immigrated here legally but people keep telling me to 'go back where I came from' and I was born in Ohio.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

Colonial settler logics determine belonging based on phenotype rather than legal or natal citizenship.

Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with The examined colonial subject?”

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