Rachel Ida Buff

Rachel Ida Buff teaches in the history department at the University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee. She edited Immigrant Rights in the Shadows of Citizenship (2008).

Written by Rachel Ida Buff

A girl kissing a tabby cat on its head while gently holding its face. The cat looks calm and relaxed.

essayChildhood and adolescence

The face she makes

Sadness, anger, disappointment: for once, I saw the perfect storm behind her mask of adolescent indifference

Rachel Ida Buff