I miss eating Vindaloo with Dad.
Wilhelmine Taylor, Australia. My father’s family was originally from India, but his mother was Scottish/Danish. People tended to assume he was a white guy with...
Brown in summer, white in winter
Ronisha, Laugna Niguel, CA I am of mixed race. My mother is one hundred percent Filipino and my father is white. In the summer, my...
I am French with curly hair
Yasmine Derbal, Athens, TX One of my teammates last year told me that I was not French because I have curly hair and and I...
Do I look white to you?
Rose Jackson, United Kingdom My dad is white British and my mum is mixed white and black. So I have lighter skin and have a...
He Called Her: Saddle Tan Female
Lenore J. Domers Appleton, WI I read this “name” in a book entitled Colonel Carter’s Christmas, by F. Hopkinson Smith, published in 1903. It is...
We are all shades of brown.
Eileen Seigfried, Greensburg, PA As a preschool teacher, I would lay out black and white sheets of paper. The students would lay their hands on...
I bet you darken in sun.
Olivia Devereux, Silver Spring, MD I’m white. Light skinned white. Black people think I’m passing. I was raised by a Black woman and come across...
My cousin’s neighbor that doesn’t know
Olivia Perry, Elmira, NY My cousins’ dad is from Ecuador but they used to live in Elmira. During a party, their neighbor came by and...
Taunted by Whites for being untanned.
Marcia S Davis, Holland, MI Since I was a kid and into adulthood, I’ve heard people say to me, a Caucasian, “You’re so white!” “You...
Cold Stares Warm Smiles Evens Out
Eric Flores, Lubbock, TX. I am a Mexican-American or simply put American. I was born and raised in a conservative town. I was too Mexican...
You need to get a tan
Malena, Sparta, NC Growing up, I was always the child that would stay outside from morning to night. Even though I was always outside I...
You Don’t Look Like Your Name
Jessica Davila, Rowlett, TX I am a tanned skin, brown hair, brown eyes, Mexican American woman. My married name was Jessica Phillips. I worked at...
I’m Pasty and I Know It
Abby Korschgen, Burlington, IA People have always been around me showing off their tan, but no matter how hard I try, I can’t tan. I...
Italian Boyfriend Uncomfortable Visiting Arizona Home
Mike McNamara Chicago, IL Especially in the non-winter months because he gets so dark. Growing up in Tucson, he was sometimes mistaken for Mexican, which...
White women kill for that color.
Kavita Charleston, SC As an Indian-American woman working in agriculture, I used to frequently get some variation of this comment when I sold at farmers’...
Yeah, but you don’t look white.
Seth Skaggs, Marion, OH. Four months out of the year, I get to be white. Well, white-ish. My parents always told me that my tanned...
Good Lord, that girl is white!
Kristen, Virginia Beach, VA. I have ALWAYS been pale. Like so pale its embarrassing to wear shorts (especially in the beginning of the summer). If...
THEIR FIRST “NEGRO” HAD A TAN.
Theil Baumann Ramsbey Smithfield, RI Everyone was so friendly when my family moved when I was in second grade. It was because, a classmate told...
