Co-ethnic camp spaces let youth treat racialized status as a given.
Evidence
It took their experiences of being teased or mocked as a starting point of a conversation. For some of the youth, it was the first time they had engaged in a frank co-ethnic conversation that treated their non-white racial status in the United States, and the discrimination they faced from it, as obvious. At camp, youth did not have to defend the legitimacy of their racial feelings, nor did they have to uphold identities or divisions that made little sense in diasporic contexts. — Neda Maghbouleh, The Limits of Whiteness, 444