Challenges vary for int’l, minority Elis
Experience Race at Yale: Part 2 of 3
Amani Kitali ’07, an international student at Yale who was born and raised in Tanzania, said that even though he has now spent almost four years in the United States, he is still struck by the large role race plays in the way American Yalies define themselves.
“I consider myself to be part of the black community, but at same time international,” he said. “The way I see Africans making friends on campus is much more diverse than African-Americans, and I think it’s just because we don’t have that strong sense of race. I don’t think it’s bad, I don’t think it’s good. I just think...
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