Abstract

When my friends took me to my first rodeo, a little ways outside the small Midwestern college town where we were undergrads, I was interested to experience this American tradition. But I was distracted by a man with a gun strapped to his side staring at me, unblinking and unsubtle, as if I was a zoo animal. At first I wondered, a little foolishly,“Did I inadvertently wear my T-shirt inside out?” Then my best friend, Robert, an African-American military veteran, leaned in almost imperceptibly and whispered,“Stay close to me. I don't think they're used to foreign visitors here.”

Date

June 11, 2021

Authors

Mayank Kejriwal

Journal

Science

Volume

372

Issue

6547

Pages

1238-1238

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science