Creative Nonfiction Contest Finalist
Does Pumpkin Pie on Thanksgiving Make Me “Black•ish?”
The internal racial debate of growing up “mixed” in America
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4 min readDec 22, 2020
As I planned to cook for Thanksgiving, I felt a familiar pit in my stomach as I considered what I would make for dessert. Growing up, our family would eat pumpkin pie at Thanksgiving, and…