I’m Italian, West Asian, North African
Leah Granen, Santa Clarita, CA I grew up thinking I was second generation 100% Italian/Sicilian. I realized that my grandfather and great uncles had Americanized...
Kofi is a fake white man!
fakeKofi M. G. W. Opantiri, Los Angeles, CA. I am the eldest child of two boys and a girl born to an American-African father and...
You do not look Puerto Rican.
Beatriz McConnie Zapater, Jamaica Plain, MA. I am Puerto Rican with white, indigenous, Spanish, and African ancestry. When I hear that I do not look...
I’m a American Indian not a Native American
Damone Wilson, Milwaukee, WI As a kid, I remember coming home from school & telling my grandmother about what I learned for black history month....
One Mirror With Many Different Reflections.
Keith R. Barnes, Colorado Springs, CO. I hear people talking about being a part of a pure race. Race is a distinction placed upon one’s...
I am BLACK & PROUD, always & forever.
Lauryn Fleming, Richmond, VA p>I feel as a black community we lack being prideful of who we truly are due to society. The saying “black...
White Baby Boomer Low Wage Slave.
Skyler Crane Oceanside, CA There is a small splash of African in my ancestry, never talked about, though obvious in physical traits of many of...
Identity isn’t housed in a box
Karen Than Myaing Silver Spring, MD In this photo: what do you get when you mix an Israeli, a Trinidadian, a Jamaican, a Caucasian, a...
Haitian Cuban fusion. Proud legacy continues.
Suzette Chaumette, San Leandro, CA. We speak of ourselves as a Caribbean family. We teach our girls about the significance of the drum, Haitian Revolution,...
We’ve got a new lawyer now
David Rotenstein, Silver Spring, MD. Africville was a community of African Canadians on Bedford Bay in Halifax, Nova Scotia. It was settled in the early...
Never complete, white skin, African soul
H. Allan White, Huntersville, NC My earliest and formative years were spent in an era of segregation and the early trials of desegregation. Despite an...
Acknowledge the human race’s African origin
Ted Fink, Rhinebeck, NY As a kid growing up in the 1950’s, my Grandpa wouldn’t let me play with the black kid who lived next...
My African Curls, Scottish White Skin
William (Bill) Roderick Wilson, United Kingdom Where did I get my curls ? Growing up in Scotland in the 1950’s I was one of 5...
No, I am not a foreigner.
Denise Valstar, Netherlands Very often people ask me where I am from. I am born in the Netherlands, my parents are born here. The only...
A misunderstood southern white jew
Benjamin Beadle, New Orleans, LA I was born and raised in Louisiana. I was raised a Christian on my father’s side and Jewish on my...
Would All My Ancestors Love Me?
Melissa U., Charlotte, NC. My Taino people would love me, from my plump lips to my curly hair. My African people would love me from...
Got an accent. In five languages
Ioana Hojda, Aberdeen, SD Immigrant, white wife of an African immigrant and mother to mixed boys. We have moved to the US from Italy, our...
