The Paris Review staff is off in a tryptophan-induced haze, so we're reposting some of our favorite Thanksgiving pieces. Enjoy your holiday!  Back in the early 1980s, no one at the mostly white elite prep school I attended had heard of Kwanzaa…

Celebrating Umoja Karamu, a “ritual for the black family,” on Thanksgiving.Back in the early 1980s, no one at the mostly white elite prep school I attended had heard of Kwanzaa, which I’d grown up celebrating instead of Christmas. This was a yearly…