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Redefining identity
story & photo Conner Jay
In this election year, pundits, campaign strategists, and pollsters are making a living dividing us into demographic pie charts. From a distance, they are trying to determine our identities. Are skin color, age, gender, or political affiliation accurate predictors of how we see the world?
In photographer Conner Jay’s search for answers to that question, he found eight University of Oregon students — including Rachel Modica, pictured above — who confront racial confusion every day. Jay captured their experiences in a three-minute video.