Impressions of America: Tereza's friendship with Elizabeth

Tereza, the producer of this podcast, who immigrated to the US from the Czech Republic in her teens, remembers her friendship with Elizabeth, who was from Ethiopia. She says that their friendship was rich in that they were able to discuss issues of race together. "When I remember our conversations," Tereza recalls, "we used words with each other--tongue-in-cheek--that we would not use with other people. It's kind of embarrassing to think about that now," she confesses, "but that's just how we talked about race (then)."

These very conversations, says Tereza, helped both girls begin to make sense of US society and their place within it as new immigrants.

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