Unraveling Bloodlines: How "Relative Strangers" Redefines Family and Belonging
In addition to belonging and betrayal, themes of identity, kinship privilege, and shame also run through Relative Strangers.
Each contributor sets out to find someone or something — a relative or simply their own history. But entwined in these longings is something more existential, the quest for one’s identity. Imagine waking up one morning thinking you are half Black, then, upon receiving the results of an Ancestry.com DNA test, you learn you’re not Black at all. You are Ashkenasi Jewish. This happened to contributor Kara Rubinstein Deyerin. Here’s how she describes her reaction to the news in her essay “Becoming:”
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