Please stop staring at us. Please.
Jacqueline Trudeau Brecksville, OH My boyfriend and I discuss our different backgrounds a lot. He’s Hindu, I’m Catholic. His parents came to America after he...
Your kids will be half black!
Jamie, Kake Elsinore, CA. For over three years, I was in a interracial relationship. On one occasion out we had went to a nice place...
His Parents don’t like white girls
Rachel in Honolulu I have encountered this many times dating other races. I have white (well really pinkish) skin. I’m attracted to all ‘races’. Many...
Wasn’t allowed to date Colored Girls
Anonymous, Spokane, WA. On location Spokane Falls Community College.
Struck for Dancing with Blacks, Why?
M C Antone, Ft Lauderdale, FL. In 1969 I told my parents that I would rather dance with the black kids at a high school...
Will My Children Know White Privilege?
Ellie Myers, Saint Louis, MO. I was born and raised in Saint Louis, Missouri where the tension around race politics is palpable. Race never played...
You’re going to prom with him?
Katie Bowles Linfield, PA I grew up in a conservative white Catholic/Christian family that tends to be very narrow-minded, especially in the older generations. I...
Dating Bi-Racially Has Changed My Life
Erika, USA. I am a white woman that is dating a black man. I tried to think racism didn’t exist anymore until I started dating...
Latin mothers like white American boyfriends.
Jazelle, San Francisco, CA. It seems like with Latin American mothers, who comes from 1st generation parents, morph this idea that being with a white...
But where do you come from?
Caitlin Wong, USA. I am a White American woman who relatively recently started seeing a Chinese man. He was born and raised in American, but...
Witnessing people confusing anecdote with fact
Deborah Robinson, Los Angeles, CA. I grew up in profoundly white Eugene, Oregon, where I’d laugh at banners emblazoned, CELEBRATE DIVERSITY. “What, as long as...
