I’m white and I’m raising a biracial child.
Josie, Norfolk, VA Old Dominion University I’m white and I’m raising a biracial child. No, he isn’t adopted. No, I did not birth him. Yes,...
Too white for my own good.
Lauren Qualters, West Chester, PA. For my race card project I chose the phrase “Too white for my own good” which is most certainly a...
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...
My daughter doesn’t look me…
Carmen Tang, San Jose, CA …but she still my daughter. My daughter looks more like her dad which is Asian America. Something people ask me...
Don’t ask why families don’t match
Alicia Barnes, Starkville, MS. Shared race is not a qualifier of being a mother to a child. Some of us birth kids who don’t look...
Made-up, fear, love, in, out, together
Dev Michel Luthra, Jamaica Plain, MA. I am the child of an Indian (Asian) father and a European mother, both of whom were raised in...
Mexican-American, But No Hablo Espanol
Vincent Yanez, Long Beach, CA. For as long as I remember my mother, and myself as I got older, was given a very hard time...
Mother of black son, sleepless nights
Maureen Allen, New Hempstead, NY. I think what I’m trying to say is that I worry all the time about my son. Will he be...
Wishing I knew my own language.
Celestina Garcia, Bloomington, IN. Cripplingly aware of my Hispanic heritage, yet I feel that it doesn’t belong to me. I have my mother’s Anglo nose,...
She’s not your mom, she’s white.
Sezin Koehler Submitted via Twitter: @SezinKoehler How many times I’ve heard this in my life. As a child very often when visiting the US...
I’m mixed and proud of it!
Makiah, Riverside, CA. Sophomore College Student, CBU HIS311 I have a black mother and a white father. My mom always taught me that I should...
I look white. I’m half Indian.
Heather Nath, Buffalo, NY. My father is from India. My mother is Irish/British. I’ve had the “privilege” of looking 100% white woman my entire life....
Uppity white mother, shut your mouth
Kristen Hartke Washington, DC I have been a DC public school parent for 14 years, and my daughter is about to graduate from high school....
The Asian/Pacific Islander category is very enticing.
Cheryl Mercado Arnedt, West Orange, NJ. My grandmother and her sister — red-headed daughters of NYC cops — both married full Filipino men and were...
My parents, grandparents and ancestors, where European
Gildo Filipe Paradisi, Brazil. Other informons: I was born in Brazil and I am son of Italian father and Portuguese mother. My grandparents and great-grandparents...
I am always missing some of me
Yasmin Gill Baltimore, MD My mother is white, American, and my father is Pakistani. Where ever I go, and whomever I am with, I rarely...
