"The worst thing that conversion does is takes away our identity," said Mr. Kujur.
"To steal a child and take away his identity — that's what Franco did to the country as a whole".
The limits of self wear away and identity bleeds out, and no one is quite secure in their skin.
For starters, how about steering the party away from identity politics and toward "common sense for the common good"?
Ali, who is street-smart and not easily rattled, doubted that the Embassy had given away his identity — the official was probably trying to trick him into confessing.
He told me that their uprising moved him "simply as a human being"; to my probing about nationality, gender, or sexuality, he kept away from identity politics).
On the eve of the Democratic convention here in Charlotte, Time Magazine's Joe Klein calls on the party to move away from identity politics: The Democrats have a serious problem.
The prosecutor raided offices in the German cities of Hamburg, Hanover, Cologne, Frankfurt and two smaller locations, which Mr. Möllmann said he did not want to name because it could give away the identity of the people under investigation.
What is less predictable is the consequence for Natraja, the American in the grip of an obsession who casts away her identity like the Hindus around her wash away their sins.
White Americans told Africans: "We're going to kidnap you, we're going to strip away your identity, then slowly give you back the rights you had from birth, and make you feel like they're something special.
