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No Love, No Reciprocity for a Sister-Cousin: On President Obama and his Supreme Court Nominee

March 17, 2016

“But wait, how is that your sister if her mother is your aunt?” See the way my family tree is set up… If you’re Black and living in the US, you’ve likely had to answer this question from a non-Black person who is clearly very confused about your family structure. I get the question often so I usually explain that my first cousins and I were raised like siblings and that’s how we refer to one another. Sometimes, I use terms like "brother-cousin" or "sister-cousin" to preempt the ques[...]

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