Cuban assimilationist mom Black stereotype dad
Irene Crane, Batavia, IL Listening to your book “Our Hidden Conversations” so many of those stories and 6 words resonated with my experience growing up...
Still figuring out my six words.
Rob Moore, Oak Park, IL. I was raised in Southern California, born into a military family. I’ve lived most of my life in a white–or...
It’s worse than you probably think
Amelia Ketzle, Carbondale, IL. I was at a Halloween party no more than two years ago, hosted by a girl I had lost touch with...
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%...
Is all that your real hair?
Alexis Beauford Normal, IL 2 years ago I decided to go natural. A lot of non-ethnic people don’t know what that means. When an African...
The difference is culture, not color.
Brenda Ward, Schaumburg, IL. The color of our skin has nothing to do with who we are. It is where we live, who raises us,...
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...
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...
You have to break the chain
Vritania G, Illinois, IL My mother has always told me that the future rest on my shoulders. She might be right but, isn’t that a...
