Every multiracial person living in America before the year 2000 had to, at some point, fill out a form stating that they identify as one, singular race: white, Black, Asian, Indigenous, Pacific Islander.
Every multiracial person living in America before the year 2000 had to, at some point, fill a form stating that they identify as one, singular race: white, Black, Asian, Indigenous, Pacific Islander.
And that was during the last few years of the apartheid, so we lived in an all-white neighborhood, and I attended an all-white public school, while my parents helped found a multiracial church in downtown Cape Town.