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Tag Archives: race

Give Me Your Camera: Understanding Gift Giving in Ghana

February 3, 2017by Humanist Service Corps Leave a comment

By Wendy Webber Humanist Service Corps Ghana Co-Administrator One of the interactions with people in Ghana that I find difficult is when people—strangers—ask me to give them things. It’s quite common. In […]

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Humanist Service Corp Blog, Memoirs & Journeys

What is White Privilege in Ghana?

September 6, 2016by Humanist Service Corps 1 Comment

By George Gold Humanist Service Corps Volunteer While it’s one of the phrases of the day, throughout my life I never thought that white privilege applied to me. Dad finished the 8th […]

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Humanist Service Corp Blog, Politics & Culture

Conversations in Ghana About Race in America

August 12, 2016by Humanist Service Corps Leave a comment

By Warren Alan Tidwell Humanist Service Corps Volunteer We have arrived in Ghana for our year of volunteer work with the Humanist Service Corps. Leading up to my departure I researched West […]

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Humanist Service Corp Blog, Politics & Culture

Who Are You Fighting For: Navigating Cross-Cultural Feminism

December 22, 2015by Humanist Service Corps Leave a comment

By Naduah Wheeler Humanist Service Corps Volunteer Feminism is essentially the belief in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes as Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie famously said and Beyoncé quoted. While […]

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Humanist Service Corp Blog, Politics & Culture

In Ghana I’m White

October 28, 2015by Humanist Service Corps 1 Comment

By Naduah Wheeler Humanist Service Corps Volunteer I was always the only brown kid in my class. Growing up in a town of fewer than four thousand that counted demographics by person […]

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Humanist Service Corp Blog, Politics & Culture

Let the Journey Begin: Driving into the Unfamiliar

September 15, 2015by Humanist Service Corps Leave a comment

By Naduah Wheeler Humanist Service Corps Volunteer Transportation is one of my favorite parts of traveling. Mundane forms of transportation for locals in other countries seem new and unusual to me and […]

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Nima, Ghana

September 1, 2015by Humanist Service Corps Leave a comment

By Matan Gold Humanist Service Corps Volunteer An open courtyard. A tin roof rusted red. A useless fan hangs from a wooden scaffold, its cords frayed vine-like. A woman sweeps the yard, […]

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