Curly hair, yes I am fully black.
Codi Fillmore, Houston, TX You do not have to be mixed to have curly hair. Black people’s hair isn’t “nappy”. We several different skin tones...
I am French with curly hair
Yasmine Derbal, Athens, TX One of my teammates last year told me that I was not French because I have curly hair and and I...
Black women will not become extinct
Sonja Williams, Bellwood, IL As a black woman I continue to see the not so subtle messaging in media and advertising often portraying black women...
Your hair is nice, you mixed?
Lauryn Ivy, Chicago, IL Being a black woman in America there are so many stigmas against our appearance. There are so many people with stereotypes...
Apparently, I’m Jesus, or a terrorist.
John Abraham, Grand Rapids, MI. Thanks to my Italian and Lebanese heritage, I am blessed to say I have a fairly full beard and curly...
Would All My Ancestors Love Me?
Melissa U., Charlotte, NC. My Taino people would love me, from my plump lips to my curly hair. My African people would love me from...
I BET YOU HATE YOUR HAIR
Tiana, Wildomar, CA. Typically I get complimented on my hair that I have inherited from my mother’s side. As a mixed breed people struggle to...
Natives Can Have Curls Without Admixture
An Indigenous Native American’s with Curly Hair, USA Western Hemisphere Indigenous Natives The “straight hair myth” started by The English Settlers in North American, and...
Would All My Ancestors Love Me?
Melissa U., Charlotte, NC. My Taino people would love me, from my plump lips to my curly hair. My African people would love me from...
Hispanic white woman discriminated by every race.
Bridget, Washington, DC. As a child growing up in the Texas Hill Country I was often told to go back to Mexico. I didn’t speak...
You must be Cuban or something.
Jesse Hernandez-Oliver, Modesto, CA. I’m Mexican, African and Native American (Apache and Cherokee soecifically) with ringlet curled hair that resembles finger waves of the 1920s...
I don’t know what I am.
Jordi A. Snell, The Netherlands. My mother is Dutch and my father is Moluccan (Melanesian I assume). I don’t exactly know what my father’s race...
I am simply human, nothing more.
Patti J Baines, Anacortes, WA. I belong to the curly haired, wide bottom affiliation of short women with freckles that inhabit this part of the...
You have a black girl’s hair
Lauren, Fairpoint, NY. I was required to do this for a MSW course on ethnic diversity. As a white, Italian-American woman, it was very difficult...
Saw an ugly world too early
Diana Ryan Millbury, MA My last name notwithstanding, I am 100% Puerto Rican through and through. That is an ethnicity, not a race but too...
Nice tan, are you a Mexican?
Amanda Kotyuk San Jacinto, CA My father was a cowboy, born and raised on the horse ranches of Melrose New Mexico. He was a mix...
Please! Ask before touching my hair.
Tiffanie Luckett Washington, DC I have had men and women approach me on public transit, in the streets of Washington, in restaurants and grocery checkouts,...
