I Am Biracial Stories of Experiences

I'm biracial, but I'm expected to perfectly 100% match exactly how people think I should *have* to look based on what I am. Genetics doesn't always work like that. Neither parent can love me, because I don't look the way they wanted...

Used to call me an oreo........when I think back i shouldn't have hid myself from their ignorant remarks.....I am still alive and embrace my mixtures:)

Hi, My name is Ginny and I am bi-racial. (half white and half black) I am doing a paper and presentation/study on what it means to be biracial. I was wondering if any of you would be interested in filling out this short survey. I would...

I hate being mixed race. My mother is African-American and hooked up with my father stationed in Germany with the US Army. He is in simple terms a Romani or Gypsy, but there's been a lot of intermarriage for several generations in his...

I love the dual perspective I get from being bi-racial. I identify with both the majority and the minority races. It is quite a unique experience to have that "balance" in outlook.

Im half filipino and half african but I was mainly raised by my mom (filipino)

It was always hard and irritating when people would ask why I didn't act a certain way or look a certain way or talk a certain way because I looked african...

Alright, here goes.

I am a biracial man living in the southern united hates of america and here is my story. I grew up in a white neighborhood. Race has always been a factor even if it wasn't said so. How do I know this? I do not...

My cheer leading team had a fall competition and I was told my hair had to be straight and I couldn't have my curls. At first I thought oh yeah it makes sense weal have to look the same, but as I thought about it I felt offended. Why...

We are currently casting for a documentary film on being Biracial and need your stories. If you have struggled with identity and race please contact us. The film is shooting in NY/NJ metro area and we would love to hear from you. If you...

I have always struggled on "who" i am. I have a big mix in me. I am of Chinese, Japanese, Filipino, Puerto Rican and White heritage.
People would often ask me "What i was". So i would tell them that my mom is white and my dad is...

I've heard it said that no one truly judges by race- rather, they judge by what your race appears to be. My mother is Japanese and my father is a European Jewish mix, and though I hear many stories of biracial children being shunned by...

my mom is indian and black and my dad grandparents are white&irsh so does that make me half black half white

All my life I have been called pretty, attractive, ect. ect. But on the downside of things I have always been teased, questioned and tormented for how light I am. Even for a biracial/multiracial individual.

Throughout elementary...

Im a biracial girl in highschool and i dont fit in. I had great friends always by my side until the sixth grade. Then my friends started to avoid me and one girl in particular (lets call her Emma) started telling me stuff like "never...

Not sure where to begin. I am black and white, my father is white and my mother is black. Growing up biracial was hard, it still is hard, but not as hard now that I'm 16.

When I was a little kid, I thought of race as literally just...

I am half Mexican (from my dad) and half white (from my mom). I don't know my dad and I don't really care about hum because he left me and my mom and my older sister when I was 3 months old. I don't know his side of the family either...

I'm a biracial thirteen year old girl with a white father from America, and a black mother from Africa. I was born in Africa and lived there practically my whole life. Living here, I was well treated by the black and white community in...

I am a beautiful, intellegent, uniques multiracial woman and love it. However, I did not always feel this way!!! My mother is white and her mother, my grandma, raised and adopted me. My father was black and hispanic and then when you...

 
                             President Obama is not Black!
I can however,  understand the importance placed on considering him so by the "African American" community.
After all, my father was a "Black" man too! No...

Ok so I just took a freshman sociobiology class. And I learned that Asian males have what would be called “beta male” characteristics. Less aggressive and violent, communitarian based, intelligent and weak. Basically the worst...