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1. What is your earliest memory?
2. What is your earliest memory of being aware of your race? How about gender? Socio-economic status? Religious identity?
3. What kinds of things do you remember easily? What's hard for ( Read more... )
1. What is your earliest memory?
2. What is your earliest memory of being aware of your race? How about gender? Socio-economic status? Religious identity?
3. What kinds of things do you remember easily? What's hard for ( Read more... )
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This is hard for me to answer because a lot of my early memories are more about constants than events. That is, I remember the dark wood of the floors in our living/dining room before they were carpeted when I was nine months old. I remember the blue car that my dad traded in the spring I was a year old. I remember eating bread & butter with my granny and playing funny games with her--senility is a great inspirer of make-believe: let's pretend we're both little girls! let's pretend granny doesn't know where she is! I remember playing shoe-store in a house that I was never in after I was two years old. I don't know which of those are earlier than others--probably the floor--but I was pretty clearly writing to long-term storage very early.
2. What is your earliest memory of being aware of your race? How about gender? Socio-economic status? Religious identity?It's not clear to me that I was aware of my own race until I was in my mid-twenties, in any meaningful way. I was aware of other people' ( ... )
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I think my sense of history and memory are a very strong influence on me. It has encouraged me to take a longer-term perspective than many people seem to do. I also think it gives me a lot of data for recognizing patterns in my life, in the world, etc. And the way that I remember stories has allowed me to learn a lot from other people's experience that I've found pretty useful through the years. While I enjoy sharing childhood memories with others of my generation, I think it's less the specifics and more the general tone of the times that connects us. Growing up in the 70s and then watching the kids who grew up in the Reagan years coming into college behind us made me very aware of how quickly things changed at that point.
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I'm never sure if they are true memories or memories of memories but i remember my grandmother's apartment from when I was about 2. I can tell you the layout and how she later had a white christmas tree with silver tinsel, white lights and blue bulbs.
2. What is your earliest memory of being aware of your race? How about gender? Socio-economic status? Religious identity?That's an easy one, I was in first grade and I was pegged as an American and told that I was a disgrace and called a few names. I came home asking my mother what an American was and why did I have to be one ( ... )
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Watching the cat walk along the banister. I pulled up out of the playpen to try to follow... He made it look so easy.
2. What is your earliest memory of being aware of your race? How about gender? Socio-economic status? Religious identity?What a big question ( ... )
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