Double alienation: A Chinese student in polarized America
Through radically different experiences — first in Grayson, Louisiana, and then at the liberal arts college Oberlin in Ohio — Xiaoqian Zhu has had a close and personal look at the ways America is divided. "In the end," she writes, "both places made me feel that I simply cannot fit in." And yet, she has not given up trying, spurred on by the promise that we can be better.
