Biracial girl always marked as “white”.
Alex Johnson Bentonville, AR My father is Caucasian, born and raised in Arkansas. My mother is Hispanic, born and raised in the Dominican Republic, despite...
The White Girl: curious, ignorant, ashamed
Rebeca Osborn Ambridge, PA I grew up in largely white, upper-middle-class suburbs, but as a social outcast for different reasons, somehow most of my best...
I’m biracial: yellow outside, white in.
Katherine Fogelberg Fort Worth, TX We talk about race as though it is only something on the outside – but I have fought my whole...
Feeling helpless the dream is dying.
Ellen Asbury Crofton, MD How can I verbalize my feelings of non-bias to people that have faced bias and prejudice based on how they look?...
I would have pulled the trigger.
Alex Seattle, WA I’m a short biracial woman. I would never have followed Trayvon. But if it went down like the jury thinks it went...
Biracial is the New Black
USA Growing up biracial you feel the pain of a world still hung up on race and the hope of world that won’t be.
Are you sure you are Black?
Saundra Davis San Francisco, CA Biracial before it was cool…people often refuse to accept that I’m a Black woman…or they assume I would rather be...
Biracial by birth, Black by choice.
Kimberly Siple Detroit, MI This quote from The Black Socialite Blogspot helps explain my choice. ”although the ”one drop rule” law was ruled unconstitutional in...
What are you; some can pass?
Quinta Thompson Lafayette, LA I hate that my friends who are biracial, usually nonblack, like to be ethnic when it is convenient and white when...
Sometimes being Biracial can be lonely.
Carolyn Crist Zanesville, OH This is interesting. Thank you.
Yes, I really am her mom!
E.F. Outside USA, Mexico I was bused (from a white neighborhood to a formerly all-black school) to integrate Milwaukee Public Schools in the 70s and...
Afraid children won’t look like me
Alexandria Jones Columbus, OH As a biracial woman (African American and Caucasian) who married a Caucasian man I’m afraid that our future children will not...
Tan skin, hazel eyes, long hair
Kat Baltimore, MD My mother is black and my father is white. Out of their children, I am the lightest & whitest looking. Plenty of...
