Models for Writers: Short Essays for Composition

self-and-identity

• I think my mother's English almost had an effect on limiting my possibilities in life as well.

  MWSE-RC-317

• Naylor says she must have heard the word nigger many times while growing up, yet she 'heard' it for the first time when she was in the third grade.

  MWSE-RC-296

• She, for the erasure of Indianness, the absence of an unvarying daily core. I, for the narrowness of her perspective.

  MWSE-RC-336

belonging

• Because the Hawaiian kingdom was more concerned with genealogy than race, mixed Hawaiian did not mean less Hawaiian.

  MWSE-RC-298

• He recognized our mixed racial backgrounds and used 'hapa' like a secret handshake, suggesting we were aligned with him: insiders and not tourists.

  MWSE-RC-297

education-and-formation

• Wilson uses the story of finding an old purse to recollect what kind of woman her mother was.

  MWSE-RC-273