Black families don’t adopt white babies.
Sue Rushfirth Sudbury, MA It strikes me that one way of assessing just how evolved we are as a culture would be to consider the...
Blood doesn’t make me Native American.
Anonymous Burke, VA As a child of two culture I was always on the outside of both.
Cascade Engineering Race Card Project
Published on May 16, 2012 by Mercedes Barragan Inspired by Michele Norris, some very ambitious employees at Cascade Engineering wanted to know how its employees felt...
Inescapable mulatto nature of American culture
Submitted via Twitter: @zerode San Francisco, CA A quote from jazz critic Albert Murray. More about Albert Murray: Taken from Albert Murray, an African American...
Little Latina girl learns to accommodate.
Aracely Coronado Philadelphia, PA As a Latina born in San Francisco, CA, educated with wealthy white kids, I learned to navigate their world, it was...
I value CULTURE more than race.
Alexis Brown Philadelphia, PA I think race and culture are used as synonyms entirely too much. I think the distinction between race and culture is...
I never thought race really mattered.
Holly Clegg Ann Arbor, MI Culture makes us who we are; our roots make us who we are. We are defined by our interactions, identified...
In a bubble, then it popped.
Emily Laske Ann Arbor, MI Understanding Race Project- University of Michigan I lived in a small city that was 94% white, with minimal exposure to...
Does my race lack culture?
Amelia McConnell Panorama City, CA Sometimes as a white person I feel that my race lacks culture compared to other cultures. When I continue to...
I’m a stranger in every land.
Jordan Bo Delaware, USA My experiences living in foreign countries have given me a unique worldview, yet those experiences as well as my mixed ethnic...
Color blind is forever culture blind
Katherine Liu Ann Arbor, MI Understanding Race Project- University of Michigan I dislike it when people say that they don’t pay attention to the color...
Race is illusory; culture is substantive.
James Drake Ann Arbor, MI Understanding Race Project- University of Michigan
Your the whitest black guy.
Jason Smith Long Beach, CA I sometime catch people off-guard when I ask them what they mean by saying “your the whitest black guy I...
Race regardless, you still have culture
Jasmine Elizabeth Smith Oklahoma City, OK “But I’m White. I don’t have a culture I identify with.” I often hear this rueful phrase during discussions...
