Adopted at birth; family history unknown.
Kristi Boehm, Spring, TX. Every year on my birthday I give thanks to the woman who loved me enough to give me up for adoption....
We are connected, all of us
Kelly White, Frisco, TX I am a white woman who people mistake as conservative. A simple way for me to think about the race issues...
Speaking spanish is my choice
Ana Martinez, Baytown, TX I’ve been told that my language is offensive to people when people need Spanish speakers when getting hired but yet its...
Nobody is legal in stolen land.
Diana Castillo, Garland, TX Stop calling my brothers and sisters illegal. We come in peace for a better life.
Carlos, you really don’t speak Spanish?
Carlos Hernandez, Seagoville, TX I am a Hispanic of Mexican descent with an extremely stereotypical name. My first and last names are both common Latino...
I gotta be better to be equal.
Andrea Canchola, San Antonio, TX. As a young, Latina, woman I feel that I have to be better than everyone just to be equal. I’m...
Reflections of Ethnicity, but Not Race?
Josie, Houston, TX Most of my life, I had not given much thought to my racial identity. I never really thought about myself as a...
Told: Not African American? Not Black.
Auguste Budhram Austin, TX I was broke, in my twenties and had just moved to NYC when a friend told me that I could earn...
How soft black hair is. . . surprise
Charlotte, Houston, TX. I grew up close to African Americans. They were guests in our home and people on the bus with us. I never...
Neighborhood party we were not invited
Ninfa Pena-Purcell, College Station, TX. This picture of my parents captures a young Mexican American couple with aspirations to live the American dream in the...
Narrow Paths Dirt Roads Soul Soles
Treylieus Curry, Denton, TX. Everyone has a story and their road my not be pretty or easy to navigate but the destination is freeingly beautiful.
“Go back where you came from”
Yoselin, Dallas, TX As a Latina speaking Spanish is a natural thing especially to my parents who do not speak English. Going around speaking another...
“You all look alike to me”
John Kwong, Mesquite, TX Growing up an Asian American in Dallas, TX, I often heard the words of ignorant people say “All Asians look the...
