NPR’s Morning Edition features: ‘My Name Is Jamaal … I’m White’
Jamaal Allan, USA. Listen to Jamaal’s story on NPR’s Morning Edition What’s in a Name? The Poetry Question-Discovering the Relevance of Words As a white male,...
No seriously I am not Hispanic
Emily Alfonso, Summerville, GA. Everyone thinks because of my last name, that I am hispanic. But I’m not, I am Italian, Irish, and French.
French firstname, Spanish lastname. I’m Indian.
Danielle Fernandez, Trumbull, CT. I’m Indian, but born in Zimbabwe. I always greet the question of “what is your background?” with a little sigh, and...
My name sounds black, I’m not.
Lynea Ramse, Nashville, TN. My name is pronounced La-nee-a. I have been grouped with black girls all my life in settings where people haven’t met...
You judge me by my name?
Chaka Babarovich, Anacortes, WA. I went to a job interview and the person said, “Wow, you look nothing like what I thought of from your...
“M’ pa rele blanc,” I replied.
Emily S., Baltimore, MD. A phrase in Haitian Kreyol which means, literally, “I’m not called ‘White'” or “My name is not ‘White”. It was a...
My name: a slave ship’s captain’s.
S. Dews, Northampton, MA. Smith College, Otelia Cromwell Day 2014
Likes to be asked about surname
Katherine, East Lansing, MI. My last name is very unique. It is a Croatian last name and my mother’s maiden name is Croatian as well....
Not everybody who’s brown is “Hispanic”.
Nicole Bodenstein Milwaukee, WI I’m allowed to have a German last name.
Well that’s a [pause] unique name
Bassey Etim-Edet Washington, DC No, my name is NOT unique or interesting. You’re world is just very small.
She took the time to talk…
Karen Bentwood, TN with me about what her name really was, as opposed to how the professor said it. She would say her name, the...
How do you pronounce your name?
Inchara Carmel, IN Whenever I met someone new, the first two minutes of our conversation was how to pronounce my name and what it meant....
Hispanic name in a rural town
Elena Rodrigues Houghton, MA Living in a small town in the UP of Michigan and having a fairly Hispanic name can sometimes bring out the...
