Author Archives: Mahtab Laghaei

Respectability Politics doesn’t Protect Us

Filed under Culture, Events, Global Politics, Race and Racism   ·   November 21st, 2017   ·   0 comments
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“After all the work I’ve done, after all the work our people have done, they don’t want us?” Those were my mother’s words the morning of Trump’s immigration ban. My mother is a chemical engineer who has greatly contributed to the field of wood pellet size reduction for their use in renewable energy. I couldn’t […]