Salome Mwangi and Carolyn Casey
Recorded
May 5, 2020
Archived
May 5, 2020
39:51 minutes
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Id:
mby019754
Description
Friends Salome Mwangi (50) and Carolyn Casey (55) talk about lessons learned from their mothers, being mothers themselves, and how privilege, both nonwhite and white, has affected them respectively in complex, nuanced, varied ways throughout their individual lives.Subject Log / Time Code
SM asks CC who has been kindest to her and in what way, CC says her mother and explains how.
SM talks about becoming irrelevant in her daughters life and describes her heart getting bitter.
SM describes learning how to define white privilege and learning about it, CC talks about what white privilege means to her.
SM talks about not understanding privilege despite having it while growing up in Kenya.
CC talks about a moment where she visually saw/embodied her privilege and realized she hadn't earned any of it.
CC describes what it's like talking to other people about white privilege.
CC describes how white people do not want to acknowledge their white privilege or talk about it.
SM talks about not thinking about being a minority or about her race while growing up and living in Kenya, and that she didn't start thinking about these things until coming to the United States.
Participants
- Salome Mwangi
- Carolyn Casey