I am what I am: me.
Thanh Bercher, Huntington Beach, CA Vietnamese-French, Polish-Eastern European / South African Interfaith Buddhist-Jew Multilingual enigma.
Meet My WHITE AFRICAN AMERICAN Son
Janice Davidsson, Norfolk, VA. You can’t help who you fall in love with and this American girl fell in love with an African boy. So...
From South Africa but not black?
Stefan Svicevic, Lawton, OK. I recently came to study in the United States and I am from South Africa. Since being here a lot of...
I’m always asked “What are you?”
Madysen Phororo, Corona, CA. South African dad, and white mom: I’m pretty ambiguous in terms of my race. There were questions I got in high...
Ask me about the cricket test
Michael Simpson UK If you want to hear that most quintessential of English race conundrums, then look no further than Norman Tebbit’s ‘cricket test’, A...
Black out side. Mixed in Side.
Eddy Bowen Madison, WI I chose these words because It’s my cultural anthropology. most people when they “see” me they just see a normal black...
Oh wow, you don’t LOOK Jewish.
Anonymous, Austin, TX I’ve always found it troubling to see the look on people’s faces when they find out I’m Jewish, as if I had...
