Benefit and burden with being biracial
Ryann Williams, Trinity University In a lot of ways, having two parents of different racial/ethnic backgrounds allows a unique insight into both cultures. It can...
White mother glad sons biracial 2021
Monae Dasher, El Paso, TX I was the white girl that embraced integration in school, first to befriend the one or two Black children my...
Will they ask me or assume?
Hillary Buren, Kansas City, MO. As a biracial women growing up in am almost entirely white community I have adapted to addressing my racial ambiguity...
Si Senor! I am US citizen
Heidy Avila Murillo, Baltimore, MD. My marriage is biracial, I am Hispanic and my husband is a Caucasian born in Maryland. This year after obtaining...
Unconditionally loving my transgender biracial children!
Angel Smith, Grayson, GA I am a mother of two young adult transgender, biracial children. Some ask me how I can be so unconditionally supportive...
I am woman first, biracial second
Cynthia Heard, Cordova, TN I am unapologetically Black. I have little tolerance for fragile people who don’t consider their need for comfort as a problem...
Biracial lesbian relationship rubbled. Which why?
Lynette Faye Devall, WA With less legal, societal, and sometimes even family support, biracial same sex relationships are often under even greater strain. And when...
Black Man Father Kids Race
Derrick Carter, Charlottesville, VA. Trying to understand and teach my biracial children and how they can make the future better for every race.
Where are you from? No, really
Michael Kenji Yamasaki, Rio Rancho, NM. OBSERVATIONS – Where are you from? No really … Where are you from? I can relate to Mr. Marc...
“Your child is milking her race”
Meryl Poku, Needham, MA. The most hurtful words said to me (white) about my biracial Jewish daughter.
Don’t Bring Home No White Girls
Anonymous, TX. Said a well travelled Black American female veteran to her biracial, trilingual, and dual citizen son. Behind her, in full agreement, stood her...
I’m just stuck in the middle.
Alexis Berry, Wayne State, Detroit, MI Being Biracial is really a challenge. Being half black and half Arabic makes me feel like I belong to...
I’ve been called my sister’s nanny.
Mary Carroll, Columbia, SC. I am biracial and adopted into a white family. Growing up in a very southern affluent area, people were always asking...
Light skinned, biracial, Jewish, Arab American man.
Arturo Hull, Anchorage, AK. My mom is Syrian, Iraqi, Egyptian, Greek, Italian, Swiss-German, Austrian, South German, English, Norwegian and Danish. My dad is English, Scottish,...
Where did you get them from?
Alli Minch, Veneta, OR. When we still lived in California and my biracial twins were very young, a woman stopped me in the store to...
Glad my biracial grandchildren are girls
Carol DuPuis, Hemlock, MI It is too dangerous to be a young male of color today in America.
