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Firsthand accounts of COVID-19's devastating effects on working-class communities of color
The first months of the COVID-19 pandemic were filled with talk of heroes, the frontline workers who kept the country functioning. And when they write those history books, the heroes of the battle will be the hardworking families of New York, Governor Andrew Cuomo trumpeted on Labor Day 2020. But what if those heroes, those essential workers and their families, wrote the book themselves?
In Until We're Seen, the heroes write their own stories. Through firsthand accounts by college students at Brooklyn College and California State University Los Angeles, Until We're Seen chronicles COVID-19's devastating, disproportionate effects on working-class communities of color, even as the United States has declared the pandemic over and looks away from its impacts.
Very few of these students and their families had the luxury of laboring from home; if they were a
