Is the American dream for everyone? Does the color you are on the spectrum affect your place in society? In this episode Shabnum talks to Madison Natarajan and Alex Karjeker about their experiences growing up part South Asian. Madison is half white and half Indian, Alex is mixed race with multiple South Asian and part South Asian family members. Both of them talk to us about their experiences growing up and how they came to terms with the many different fragments of their identities. Madison talks through her childhood in which there was more of a "proximity to whiteness" as her father had also struggled with race growing up in America, thus causing her to lean more into her white identity. Alex talks us through how discussions of race and identity, of the inevitable inequity of race in America were discussions his family consistently had at home and how they helped him reconcile his reality growing up.
Host: Shabnum Gulati
Guests: Madison Natarajan and Alex Karjeker
Illustration: Hanifa Abdul Hameed
Music: AnAkkiN on SoundCloud