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Seeing myself in a 125-year-old photograph

Submitted on July 6, 2021 - 8:41pm
Children and men on a street in San Francisco's Chinatown
Arnold Genthe. Self-Portrait with Camera in Chinatown. 1896.

Elizabeth Xiong says: "I'm a computer science major, but it was an art history class that shaped how I understand our complex and broken world, and also allowed me to better know myself as an Asian American."

She has since added Art History as a second major. Read her thoughtful essay.

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