East Shore, White Shore: Segregation lives
Samuel P. Wilcock, Mechanicsburg, PA. Messiah College, Faculty. Just look at race by census track. The “West Shore” is over 90% white pretty much all...
Non white American? Call me Cuban!
Heather Thompson, San Francisco, CA. While travelling to Mexico for one week, 5 separate people asked me if I was Cuban, 1 asked me if...
I have failed my biracial daughter.
Michele Malmstrom, Charlottesville, VA. My daughter has always had very low self-esteem. I tried her entire life to address the problem by complimenting her and...
My daughter is not like me.
Bea Melnarowicz, Chicago, IL My daughter is bi-racial: her father is Spanish-French-Mexican, and I am Eastern European Caucasian. I am often told she looks ‘nothing’...
“Asian” to whites, “white” to Asians
Anonymous Being of mixed race can make a person feel out of place, and lacking of identity. My friend and I were talking about which...
Black Dad White Mom Golden Me
Azariah Solomon, Wilmington, NC. My brilliant mother always used to say, “One day, there will be no black or white … everyone will look just...
Raising a bi-racial daughter in America.
Heather Sams, Moreno Valley, CA. My daughter is a beautiful, intelligent, biracial young lady. I am white and her father is a light skinned black...
What are you? The ubiquitous question.
Laura Mariko Cheifetz Atlanta, GA I call myself hapa yonsei. I’m biracial white Jewish and Japanese American, fourth generation on both sides. However, there are...
Black AND White, no clear fit.
Barbara Jones, Albuquerque, NM. I was raised with a Northern European bias by Mom and family, my Black birth father not really being in the...
I’m biracial. I can’t choose one.
Cortney Pouncey, Sacramento, CA. Being biracial, my hands have always been forced to choose what ethnicity I should identify as. In reality, I am just...
Trying to learn for my daughter.
Wendy Wetzel Submitted via Twitter I’m white; she’s black. How do I help her through so much new to me?
You didn’t tell me he’s black
Katherine F., Minneapolis, MN. I met a woman through professional circles when I was recruiting for a volunteer project. As it happens, she lived near...
Before: half/half. Now: Full–BiRacial.
Deme Yuan, Denver, CO. (reference to my own racial identity development)
Define my integrity, not my identity.
Erin Powell, Washington, DC. “Are you sure your dad is really black?” “If you imagine her with curly hair, you can tell she’s mixed.” “You...
This man has your daughter
Karen Button, Middletown, CT. Phone call from the neighborhood grocer – followed by my husband on the line asking me to come down to the...
