The nun made me mark “white.”
Jackie Loya-Torres Kansas City, MO As a small child in the 1970s, I remember having to take some sort of standardized test in school. You...
New option at doctors – Eastern European
Anonymous, Baltimore, MD. When people discuss race, they seem to refer to only people of color. I always check Caucasian on forms. At the doctors...
Race: Miraculous variety of external appearance
Maggie Burrall, Boulder, CO I am continually moved by the seemingly infinite variety of manifestation of form, substance, appearance and beauty in our earth and...
You have to choose. Which one?
Aimee Mallery, Rochester, NY. My daughter is Native American on her father’s side. When faced with a form for daycare, I had to choose whether...
Only check one: white non-hispanic
Catherine Chase Yaghi, Stockton, CA. I hate having to exclude a part of myself when checking ethnicity on a form. The options white (non-hispanic) always...
Hispanic, Oriental, Caucasian, formerly monolingual, American
Dean Lincoln, NE I never know what to put down for my ethnicity when filling out official forms. I used to put down whatever I...
Racism takes many forms and colors.
Catherine Marenghi Marblehead, MA My family is white, and I was pleased to find no slave owners in my past — but I found a...
