They spoke at a faculty meeting, gradually overcoming what Vulchi described as “a lot of doubt about our project.”.
This should not be surprising since the authors, Princeton High School (PHS) graduates Winona Guo, now at Harvard University, and Priya Vulchi, now at Princeton University, are not your typical college students, and, as they point out, their new book, Tell Me Who You Are, is much more than a book. So, are you with us?”. I think anyone, anthropologist or not, can benefit from this message. Guo and Vulchi touch on many aspects of U.S. Americans’ personal identities, including race, culture, family background, sexual orientation, gender identity, age, religion, occupation, and socioeconomic status. Vulchi described “two big gaps in our understanding of racial literacy”: the heart gap, or the inability to be compassionate beyond lip service; and the mind gap, the inability to understand the larger systemic ways in which racism operates. There is no single, defining American identity. I’m so excited to blog about this book! Through reading this book, I was reminded how infinite the level of diversity is in the U.S.
About Tell Me Who You Are.
The idea for Choose sprang from a class conversation about race in the pair’s 10th-grade history course. Their progress quickly accelerated, along with their success. The authors make it clear that although race and ethnicity are at the center of the book’s discussion, each interviewee is defined by much more than just their race. Guo and Vulchi started their journey when they were tenth-graders at PHS and realized that nowhere in their education had they heard substantive conversations about race.
Tell Me Who You Are makes the case that race is a topic worth discussing, and it does so with compassion. Fill in your details below or click an icon to log in: You are commenting using your WordPress.com account. RACIAL LITERACY CRUSADERS: Priya Vulchi, left, and Winona Guo, Princeton High School graduates now at Princeton University and Harvard University, respectively, held a standing-room-only book launch last week at Labyrinth Books for “Tell Me Who You Are,” their new collection of stories and interviews from across the country.
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At the beginning of the book, Vulchi and Guo put U.S. race relations into context through a couple of pages devoted to “A Brief History of Whiteness.” This section is an excellent explanation of how “whiteness”—and by extension, race in general—has been socially constructed overtime.
There is no single, defining American identity. “That means the world to us.”, The next book and the next chapter in their lives as they set out across the country again on their book tour, then back for their sophomore year in college in the fall, have yet to be written, but as Guo states, “This is a lifelong quest for the two of us.”, "Allow us to help you, to help your busines!
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Tell Me Who You Are: Sharing our stories of race, culture & identity, was written by Winona Guo and Priya Vulchi, two young women from Princeton, New Jersey.
The pair took a gap year between high school and university to complete the research for this book, which involved traveling all over the U.S. to interview hundreds of people about their racial, cultural, and ethnic identities. They put together a team of students to interview more people. Photo by Nataraj Vulchi. Many of the tips shared in this part of the book could prove useful to anthropologists conducting ethnography with people who are culturally/ethnically/racially different than themselves. “I am unable to articulate the gratitude and love in our hearts for the people in our community,” said Guo, reflecting on the response of the standing-room-only crowd.
Here are the parts of Tell Me Who You Are that stood out the most to me…. Guo and Vulchi intentionally chose their hometown to begin their extensive summer book launch before they travel to book stores, schools, libraries, conferences, and other venues throughout the country. We cried. As soon as I saw this book, I knew I had to have it in my hands.
Later we missed our parents and we cried more.”, They continued, “In Montana we were too scared to interview downtown after our host told us about the white supremacists everywhere. Priya Vulchi and Winona Guo are the authors of two textbooks. The two young women’s 250-day journey wasn’t easy.
Tell Me Who You Are is, in many ways, an ethnography, as it describes the experiences of a group of people (U.S. Americans) and frames these experiences within their historical and cultural context. ( Log Out / The result is a collection of profiles, perspectives, and experiences that come together to form an insightful picture of the U.S.’s large and diverse population.