*Interview starts after intro (1:09)*
Hi, My name is Marina Rosen-Cappellazzo, and welcome to Voices of the Ones Caught in Between. In this podcast, I will be engaging in conversations with my guests broadly about identity, paying special attention to the ways societal norms and stereotypes urge us to identify, how identification with a certain identity should appear, and the process by which we should come to identify. In other words, what type of culture and environment are we urged or forced to either strongly or not strongly identify with certain aspects of ourselves. Within this conversation around identity, our guests will be asked to think about how they have come to identify in the ways that they do, and the relationship between culture and identity. As we may come to see, identity is rarely as simple as black and white, and is oftentimes a complex amalgamation informed not only by genetics, but also by society, family, culture, memory and history. Also, please do not try to find the guests on social media and attack them, even if you disagree with anything that is said.
It is important to keep in mind that while in order to resist and contend the dominant narrative surrounding identity, the stories of individuals must come to light, these individual people must not be held as the spokesperson for their respective identities.
In this episode, I interview my brother, Benjamin. He is a rising first year in college. He identifies as a black man.
