White grandchild adoptive Native American grandparents
Charlie Cook, Sacramento, CA. My dad was born from a White Russian and American couple. At 6 days old, he was placed into the wonderful...
Race isn’t real …
Kaitlyn Cook, Fairmont, MN. When I was little I lived in an apartment building in a small town. I grew up roaming the halls and...
Melting-pot Melungeon: Not “Other!” Try “Most.”
Marion Reid Kee Redmond, WA Some of my ancestors went through a lot so that I could be “white” and not have to know about...
Don’t fear me, I’m like you.
Constance Morton, Henderson, NV. I am multi-racial, but what you see when you look at me is my connection to Africa. But my ancestors came...
So much darker… Is she adopted?
Rebekah Day Vinita, OK As the only brown complected person in my large family, I stand out against the pale white. I am constantly asked...
I walk in two worlds daily.
Lenzy KB, Tulsa, OK. Like many Native Americans, I’m mixed and frankly, don’t look like the stereotypical “Hollywood” Native. I have to balance the Native...
Being “mixed” race is super frustrating.
Amber, Boise, ID. No one gets to decide what “race” they’re born as, but a lot of people have the privilege of being able to...
We all have the same opportunities!
Amanda Caraballo, Cleveland, OH. I’m so sick of “African American’s” always using the excuse “The white folk are privileged, and we can’t have this or...
I’m more than just a color
Jasmyn Joseph, Lithonia, GA. I’m from Mobile, Al….. Bible Belt city, unfortunate my grandparents where witch doctors. My granny is half Black-American and Native Cherokee...
Finally I learned to accept myself
Katherine Porter, San Leandro, CA. I grew up disowned by my racial cultures…too different from White, too different from Chinese. Talked about by cousins, wondered...
White. Wait, no! Turns out Cherokee.
Stephanie McCleery, Portland, OR. Adopted at birth, assumed white, found out 1/4 Cherokee at age 40 when found by birth mother.
I’m one of the rare ones.
Nabeste, Chicago, IL. I’m a Mexican-American. I hate white people. I have grown to hate them. They came to America to steal the land and...
That is Mr. “Mutt” to you!
Chris Cochran, Murrieta, CA. Where are you from? It’s a loaded question in that I could answer where I was born, where I was raised,...
All this, and still just white.
Anonymous, Memphis, TN. I feel like I have a wonderful heritage full of rich culture. Italian and Native American mostly, but when people look at...
“You can pass for white”
Mary Thompson Happy Valley, OR I heard this from first and second grade teachers. White women. I was proud to be Native American, but in...
I’m not Mexican, I am me.
When I was younger, I always thought that race was real, I was surprised to find that it is not biologically real. Now that I...
“My race is human, what’s yours?”
I used to think that race was something like ethnicity. It was who you were, where you came from, or where your ancestors came from....
