Anisha Nandi
Ann Arbor, MI
Understanding Race Project- University of Michigan

“I’m half Trinidadian, half Indian; I was born in England but I grew up in New York.”
They can wrap their heads around England and New York. They register half-Indian due to the caramel skin tone and dark hair. Yet, I can almost always hear the conceivable mental-stumble at Trinidadian. Some people insist, “I’m just Indian,” yet my mother is a ferociously proud, polouri-loving, cricket-watching Trini. My close friends sum up my lengthy background as “Trindian”. Yet, I wonder why others shove me into “just Indian”. Where does a multiracial identity fit in society? Where in this world is Trindia?