As you stroll south from Flatbush Avenue all the way to 101st Street, you sense the myriad layers of race, ethnicity and class: from the rich, boho yuppies who have settled in Park Slope to the Dominicans and Puerto Ricans who first made their homes in Sunset Park in the 50's to the Italians and Irish who now share their piece of America -- Bay Ridge -- with Arab neighbors.
To nuance it further, immigrant African communities such as Nigerians, Kenyans, and Ethiopians have also had tensions with African-Americans, and it would foolish to dismiss those dynamics when trying to understand the multiple layers of race in America.
Gerrymandering has a long history in this country, but sophisticated modelling, coupled with a desire to limit minority representation, adds a layer of precise race-based discrimination.
Add another layer of rice.
"It's like a game of Russian dolls," he said, adding that religious identity is nested in layers of culture, race and nationality.
Claisse says: "We had a very wet winter that year, but good weather dried up the top layer of the track before race week.
Chiron's is a life layered inescapably with complex social issues of race, class, gender, sexuality, drugs, violence, the trauma of family, and a particular sense of the place (Miami's poorest sections) where that life was constructed.
Made of chrome-plated steel, the ball bearing is composed of a double layer of balls held in a race, a casing that evidently was structurally superior to a sliding bearing.
Of course, Santorum couldn't fess up to the fact that like most of us, the poison of race has seeped into some layer of his mind.
"As queer black people we have been pushed to question everything about our multiple layers of identity -- race, gender, sexuality, class, vocation -- and then reconcile who we know ourselves to be with the identities our families and society at large have constructed for us," Parker explained to Black Enterprise.
