You can not cross Father Lawler’s street
Joseph L Collins Jr Omaha, NE Ashland Avenue in Chicago was the street you could cross at 69th street or you would get beat up...
Born privileged, living poor. Gained perspective.
Elizabeth Foster, Little Rock, AR. Growing up in a mostly-white suburb of Chicago, I was isolated from cultural and socioeconomic differences. Through my privilege, I...
In a Class of My Own
Marcus Garcia, Chicago, IL I chose these words that have been plucked straight out of InuYasha. If you aren’t familiar, InuYasha is about a half-demon...
White people got off the train.
Keith Pacheco, Langhorne, PA Sometime 1982-83. I took my German foreign exchange student to Chicago to visit the Museum of Science and Industry. We took...
Grew Up Black. Now part Mexican.
Michelle Y. Bess, Chicago, IL. My mom is from California, my dad is from NYC. They raised my 4 siblings and me in Washington State....
Age 5 They don’t serve Mexicans
Mario Lopez, Chicago, IL Our family was on vacation on the way to visit family in Mexico and we went to some restaurant in Texas...
White wife sixties Chicago eyes opened
Gail Howard, Redding, CT My memoir, White Wife/Blue Baby, examines how I at least partially unlearned racism marrying across the 1968 Chicago color line and...
White Slavery & The Myth of White Privilege
DeAnna Calderon, Austin, TX. I grew up poor in the Southside of Chicago. We were extremely poor and even homeless at times. Sleeping outside in...
Immigrant to America equals sacrificing generations.
Tom Lau, Chicago, IL. This is a Polaroid of the back of my mom and dad that I took few years ago.
Too white to be Native American
Simone, Chicago, IL. A lot of people say I look too white to be Native American. It’s tiring that my mom is full Cherokee while...
You Sound White When You Talk
Parker Wood, Chicago, IL I grew up in the suburbs. Away from “hoods” and gang violence. I also did not grow up around my Black...
I’m American and proud of it!
Mary K Prizwan, CHICAGO, IL I’m not Hispanic, Greek. Italian, or Puerto Rican…I’m American, pretty much 3rd Generation Polish and according to DNA testing 20%...
It embodies America’s hope and tragedy
Nick Rabkin Chicago, IL So much of who I am is comes from my sense that the fight for civil rights is really the fight...
A Southern Belle? No. Korean husband.
Leah Lee (now Leah Durst-Lee), Chicago, IL. Keeping cultural heritage is very important to me, so when I married my husband, Sihyun Lee, I wanted...
I am mixed-race gay man
Paul Avery, Chicago, IL. I am part Mexican and Black, live in Chicago, going to City Colleges, wish I could leave earth for a planet...
