To provide an example; the author stated that “There are those in White America who would anoint me to play out for them some drama of ancestral reconciliation” (3). I selected this particular quotation because it held an awakening meaning to me. Holding intergenerational ties might not grant you a conclusive result of who you are. Also; when you classify someone in accordance to their cultural past, you prevent them from self-defining themselves.
To provide an example; the author stated that “There are those in White America who would anoint me to play out for them some drama of ancestral reconciliation” (3). I selected this particular quotation because it held an awakening meaning to me. Holding intergenerational ties might not grant you a conclusive result of who you are. Also; when you classify someone in accordance to their cultural past, you prevent them from self-defining themselves.