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Maurice Berger, a research professor and curator, looks back on the events that led him to write about race and photography.
via Lens Blog: https://lens.blogs.nytimes.com/2017/12/06/using-photography-to-tell-stories-about-race/?module=BlogPost-Title&version=Blog%20Main&contentCollection=Multimedia&action=Click&pgtype=Blogs®ion=Body
I stood in the lunchroom doorway with my friend Kevin, bewildered. It was our first week at the High School of Music and Art, a West Harlem public school, and we had become instant friends. Still, I did not know where I belonged in a room that had casually self-segregated into racial camps where “minority” teens gravitated to one side, whites to the other.