Michigan, 1970: Where are your horns?
BJ Diamond, West Hartford, CT. Just married, moved from East Coast to Midwest, found a job as an urban planner for the county. First woman...
I was fragile now I’m stronger!
Abigail, Forest Lake, MN I grew up in the rural Midwest. Being a Korean adoptee in a Norwegian and Swedish area, I really stood out....
Kids’ mother tongue isn’t their mother’s
Elise DuBord, Cedar Falls, IA. Growing up in the Midwest, I started studying Spanish as a second language in high school, fascinated with learning about...
Can you say that again? LOL.
Caitlin F., NH My Dad and his family are all from Canada, with thicker Canadian accents. Over time, his accent has become less noticeable, but...
Passing under streetlights… shouldn’t we nod?
Tom Capuano Kirksville, MO In the Midwest, in small and mid-sized towns at least, people who are strangers to each other sometimes acknowledge each other...
Mother’s warnings at four, instilled racism.
Carmen Davis Portland, OR I was a very young child from the Midwest traveling with my mother by train to Detroit in the 1940’s. There...
Touched. Terrified, Empathetic. Praying for change.
Leanne Gutierrez, Eden Prairie, MN. Growing up white and privileged in a midwestern college town, I later lived in a Central American country for several...
It is exhausting living this way.
Delfina Bernucca, Kensington, CT. I am first generation born in USA and grew up in a 70s and 80s Midwest farming community where I was...
Not hispanic enough, not white enough
Alfida Cruse, St. Louis, MO. Growing up half Dominican and half Missouri German (white) constantly left me feeling not white enough for the white kids...
I’m an expat, he’s an immigrant.
Anonymous, Omaha, NE. Born and raised in the midwest, I studied Spanish and went to live in Latin America. While there, I met my now...
Perceptions of race…change….over time…
M’Karyl Gaynor, Decatur, GA. I am 52 years old and I am from the Midwest (Rockford, IL) and while there was not an absence of...
So wish it didn’t matter still.
Sharla Yeutsy Urbandale, IA I’m a white 73 year old grandmother of seven who has always lived in the midwest. I am grateful that I...
What if I were born black?
Harriett Fargnoli Rockville Centre, NY It’s so hard some days to make sense of anything. Humanity, not color, should define us. I was born in...
Aggressive homogeneity hurts white folks too.
Erika Chester South Korea I’m an American living in South Korea, married to an American soldier stationed here. I grew up in what I recently...
