Yes, he really is my brother.
Angalina Taylor, Muscatine, IA I come from a white family but I have an African brother. we adopted him when her was a year old...
Tight Black curls line the tub
Jan Landis, Portland, OR Our family raised a Black boy, along with our own 5 children. It always amused me when I cleaned the tub...
Wait… how is he your brother?
Brenna, France. When my brother was born, my mom told my sister and I that she hated the word “half.” She didn’t believe that the...
Trust the brother, distrust the other.
Bert Olson, San Jose, CA. This is an observation on human nature, not confined to race. Humans tend to bond with people of similar appearance...
Yes, those boys are my brothers.
Julia Guerra, Austin, TX. My brothers are very important figures in my life. They were born to a white mom and a white dad. They...
Just because I’m brown, I’m different
Jessica Hernandez, San Juan Capistrano, CA. My little sister were born light skinned versus me who was born brown. My parents like to bring that...
Mixed heritage. Feeling strange growing up
Katie Moore New Echota, GA I used to hate the way I looked growing up. My mom & brother had fair skin & freckles &...
My brother doesn’t look like me
Caroline Foster, Brooklyn, NY I’m white, my younger brother was adopted from South Korea when I was five. I forget that we don’t look related...
Do y’all have the same father
Darrell Langley Jr., Dallas, TX My brothers and I have been asked this question several times, or too many to count growing up. My twin...
“He’s not your son? Oh good!”
Amber Halverson, Eugene, OR. “Oh good! He doesn’t look like he has any white in him at all!” My first real encounter with my own...
Brother played Cowboy, never the Indian.
Bonni Hamilton, Eliot, ME. I grew up with two Native American siblings who my parents adopted when we were very small. When he was young,...
“He’s not heavy. He’s my brother”
Anonymous, Spokane, WA. Playing on the radio when my 16-year-old friend in high school came back to school after her brother was murdered someone playing...
Lights flipped, pulled over, relax brother
JC Ousley Houston, TX In 1998 I bought a new red corvette despite my mother’s plea, she said the car was trouble for a black...
Made-up, fear, love, in, out, together
Dev Michel Luthra, Jamaica Plain, MA. I am the child of an Indian (Asian) father and a European mother, both of whom were raised in...
Not just a spoiled white girl
Cassidy-Rae Bastarache, Gardner, MA I’m white and some people assume that I am privileged and have money based on some of the expensive things that...
