//Professor Lilliana Mason explains her 'complicated' American identity

Professor Lilliana Mason explains her 'complicated' American identity

Yeah, I am Lilliana Mason. I am a professor of government and politics at the University of Maryland College Park. Um, I think I have, uh, a complicated sense of my American identity in that my ancestors came over on the Mayflower and many of them were in the Confederacy. So and I didn’t actually learn very much about, um, the aftermath of the