American + International, Oreo, best of both
Joanna Hubner, Fort Worth, TX My name is Joanna Hubner, I am a teenager raised in Fort Worth Texas, and I am mixed. My dad...
He’s my dad, not the gardener.
Kelly Stuart, Brooklyn, NY. I was five when my mother married my stepfather, Alfred Brown, Jr. in 1980. My stepfather, or, as I think of...
No, I am not an oreo.
Sarah Staples, Nashville, TN. I grew up in a predominantly white community in a city that was predominantly black and hispanic or latino. My best...
I myself, am not an oreo
Natalie Ngong, Louisville, KY. Sometimes in this world not having the voice that is expected of you as the race you are, creates a need...
Being Black and southern, educated engineer
Kristen Ellerbe, Richmond, VA. Calling me an Oreo or not really black, or basically a white girl means that you define some part of my...
When did “enunciating” mean “sounding white?”
Skye Carr, Virginia Beach, VA. Throughout middle school and high school, people used to always call me an “Oreo” because I was one of the...
Why do you always act white?
Anika Moore Gulfport, MS You can not act a color. You can not be a color. Just because I speak as though I have read...
Oreo: Black outside, white inside
Lauren, Silver Spring, MD. This was a term that was often used to describe me during my middle school days, it always hurtful to hear...
I feel othered for being lightskinned.
Lexie Nobrega, Norfolk, VA. I was never “black enough” to fit in with the black kids, but I am not white either so I obviously...
Coding as white isn’t the same.
Kristina Ogilvie, Arlington, VA. It just struck me, I guess: on paper (i.e. a resume) I am for all intents and purposes a white girl....
I don’t see you as Black
Adrienne Crew Los Angeles, CA I’m always troubled about the concept of being an “Oreo” and not really projecting an “African American” identity but rather...
My kids’ RACE is not OREO
Ashli Dean, Overland Park, KS. Selected from anonomous entries in Professor Seiler’s Social Problems Class Johnson County Community College -extra credit
Not an Oreo cookie; an American.
Conrad Folkes, Royersford, PA. I’m a first-generation American of Jamaican descent. I was born in Brooklyn, NY and moved to a suburb of Pittsburgh, PA...
Which of your parents is white?
Crystal White Detroit, MI Growing up with a fair complexion in a place like Michigan is harder than most would think. With Detroit being pretty...
Teased as “Oreo” — our friendship abandoned.
Kay Wilkie Albany, NY I lost my closest friend following intensifying racial tension in Albany city schools during the early 1970s. It was just too...
Oreos. Shouldn’t they be America’s favorite?
Ashley Pettiford, Cincinnati, OH. I am black white, and Hispanic. I’ve had some mishaps from being what I am and it’s kind of ridiculous. People...
