Send the light skinned cousin in.
Gym Rati, Pasadena, CA. We were on a road trip and in Colorado a restaurant displayed a sign that Mexicans were not allowed. We sent...
I Am A Light-Skinned Black Woman
Rosina B., Temecula, CA. African Americans come in all colors and hues, and just because my skin may be light it does not make me...
Not Black Enough, Not White Enough
Heleen Moyer, Troy, PA Growing up, being a mixed girl, -also with a Hispanic father that was never around- , I never felt like I...
Light skinned, biracial, Jewish, Arab American man.
Arturo Hull, Anchorage, AK. My mom is Syrian, Iraqi, Egyptian, Greek, Italian, Swiss-German, Austrian, South German, English, Norwegian and Danish. My dad is English, Scottish,...
She is the Black People’s Victory!
Ebony Nichole, Cincinnati, OH For three days after my birth I was nameless because my Mama didn’t know she was having a girl. Born very...
What am I supposed to be?
Audrey Stygar, Pittsburgh, PA It’s lonely living between white and South American. My mom refers to me as white and doesn’t like to hear about...
But you don’t look half Mexican
Denise Shirley-Carter, Hudson, WI My father is white, Irish, Scottish, etc. My mother’s parents were from Mexico, Spain, then El Paso, TX. However, both my...
Well…there’s so many minorities now…
Tony Reyes, Portland, OR. I’m half Latino. My mother is a white, evangelical, conservative. I came home the night Obama was re-elected and asked if...
I’m not prettier because I’m white.
Rhiannon Watkins, Centennial, CO. Why are magazines always filled with white and light-skinned women? I have never in my life had a shortage of skinny,...
I’m his mother, not the nanny.
Toya Dragseth, Saint Paul, MN. My youngest son is biracial. Has his Fathers genes, very light-skinned, brownish blonde hair and when he is with just...
You’re pretty…for a dark-skinned girl!
Vernae Williams, Sacramento, CA. I grew up in a family full of light skinned people. I always felt like an outsider because within the Black...
You don’t look Latina at all!
Maria Victoria Salazar, Mobile, AL. Hi! My heritage is a little more complicated than others’, especially here in the Deep South. I have roots in...
I’m light skinned but still black
Tarnaei Carter, Chicago, IL. I am light skinned and people may think I’m not only black because I’m light skinned so I identify as black.
So, what exactly are you anyway?
Lisa Dawson Andrzejczyk, Palm Coast, FL. I am black.. I never thought of myself as anything else. I am light-skinned for certain, clearly aware that...
“But you have blue eyes!” So?
Stephanie Diane Scott-Melnyk, Washington, DC. My father is a light-skinned black man. My mother is an extremely fair white woman. For at least the 40...
