Idalia was a deeply involved parent, a mom’s mom—the kind who wakes her kids up for school by singing into a karaoke machine. Since she was deported to Honduras, she has tried to stay involved in her teen-age children’s lives via constant video calls. But, increasingly, her sixteen-year-old son, a football player, is acting as mother and father to his entire family. Sarah Stillman and Micah Hauser tracked the ripple effects of deportation on this struggling family. And Kwame Anthony Appiah talks about identity—through the lens of race, culture, gender, and sexuality—with David Remnick. In Appiah’s view, identity is always more complicated than our politics generally allow.
Parenting While Deported
A mother, deported to Honduras, tries to parent her children in the U.S. by video call.
Kwame Anthony Appiah on the Complications of Identity
A philosopher of identity says that each of us is more complicated than we realize.
