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I noticed in 5th grade when I saw my friend getting bullied because he was latino and couldn't speak English very well.

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I was always asked by some white ppl in hs if I could twerk for them, I was told that I was funny bc my personality was so ratchet

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African jokes

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Elementary school

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Birth

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Race jokes in elementary school about eye shapes

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I am not sure exactly. I always knew my family had been Jamaican so I always kind of thought everyone had been different especially because I went to a Russian daycare

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I grew up in Rockwall, Texas, which is close to Dallas. I genuinely don't fully remember when I realized I was white, but I do know that there was a stark difference in my elementary school with other children. I think that we maybe had one black kid in the entire school? I also never had professors/teachers of other races until middle school when I moved to Washington State

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In elementary when I started to realize my privilege. I moreso understood it during my freshman year of college when I was exposed to different experiences and cultures through UAlbany.

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When I traveled to different countries and my cousins there would introduce me to their friends as their cousin from Africa

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When I started to acknowledge my privilege

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In elementary school

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I was in elementary school, gifted program and my class was mostly East Asian descended kids. They said they couldn’t be friends with me because their parents only wanted them to be friends with other Asian kids or white kids

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It was when I came to college

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Elementary

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When I started school in the US

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I first realized this at the age of 4 or 5. Coming from a small town in upstate new York, the area I lived in was predominantly white and therefore i wasn't surrounded by others who came from different racial and ethnic backgrounds. I hate that this was the case but going to a private school for kindergarten changed this.

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10

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In elementary school

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Moving to a new school when i was young, people called me Mexican based off what I looked like when in reality I'm Puerto Rican without asking me what my ethnic background was.

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It was when I first came to America

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7th Grade-

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Middle School

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When my aunt got into an interracial relationship when I was around 8

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I always knew I was white, but it wasn't until I began playing youth sports at around 7 years old when i realized there were other people with different racial backgrounds. I knew there were other races, but didn't begin to see the differences until then

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9/11

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Not sure exactly when but since a very young age I have been aware.

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I went to a predominately white elementary school.

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The first time I realized I was black was in elementary school and people would say I was a different race or mixed.

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I was in my first grade class taught by an older white woman and was sent to a separate teacher during what should have been my recess every day of the week. This woman was Hispanic and told me she is someone I should come to if I ever needed anything. as if my original teacher was not comfortable with me.

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When I went through school and found that Holocaust jokes were being yelled at me as I walked down the hallway. Many people consider Jews to just be White, but in reality they aren't. I recognize my ability to pass and I recognize the white privilege applied to me, but there have also been many experiences to showed me that I was an "other"

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When one of my high school teachers told me they didn't think i would be that smart and participate as much

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3 or 4

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The first time I realized i was black in relation to others was most likely when i went to school for the first time.

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The first time I realized I was white was when I was in Kindergarten.

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Early on in my childhood, I was about 4 or 5 years old.

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When I was really young, probably around 8 years old. My family still mostly lives in the countries they are from and it was always told to my siblings and I that it was important we knew where we came from and its culture.

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I don't really know. I've felt black and proud my whole life as a Nigerian and haven't felt the need to feel otherwise.

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The first time I realized this was when I was about 7 or 8 when I first came to America

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I was in second grade when I went on a trip to NYC with my mom. I was raised in a very small, predominantly white town upstate. I had rarely ever seen a person of color before. I grew up in a very sheltered small town and I just remember being in like an awe that there were so many different people with all different  backgrounds that I had never had the chance to learn about up until that point.

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The first time I realized I was white and had a privilege in society was when cops stopped me and my friend who was Mexican on the train and I was asked 0 questions of what I was doing on the train, yet he was asked why he was there and was repeatedly questioned until we were both allowed to go on our way.

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When I spoke spanish out in public with my mom and we got looks

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When I spoke Spanish at home and English at school

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high school

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My first time realizing this was when I first attended school. I was born In dr and realized that I had to adjust to a new language and change something about myself that self unnatural. Upon doing so I realized that the men and women we all learned about were primarily White. They all had more wealth and power, and I established that at a young age and then my parents explained best as they could that unfortunately my skin tone was something that will hold me back  aka an obstacle.

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When I was in 5-6

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I remember learning about what racism was in middle school and not understanding why people would be treated differently based on the color of their skin

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When I first moved to the US

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When I was 4 or 5 and my grandmother was uncomfortable buying the black bitty baby doll for me because I am white. I always thought the black baby dolls were prettier, I didnt understand why my grandma considered it to be inappropriate.

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I came to america as an immigrant and the realization started early in school when my teachers asked where I was really from

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When I asked my parents where they're from.

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When I first moved to Binghamton at 5 years old

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In Elementary school

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8 years old

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First time i realized was when i moved from far rockaway to long island and was the only black kid at the park

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I would say high school.

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in elementary school when i first moved to the US, I made a friend, she was speaking about her crush and I agreed with her that she was cute, she then told me "he 'date black girls tho, he doesn't like black girls"

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I was 2 or 3

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When I was younger I did not recognize race. At that time in my life, I saw everyone as the same and I never labeled anyone. My childhood best friend was black. It wasn't until I was much older and after I moved out of the area that I ever identified him as black and ultimately the first time I ever recognized myself as white.

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The 1st time I realized I was Latina was when I took a school trip to Carnegie Hall

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HS, some people who were white would always ask me if I could twerk and that I was funny because the way I acted was so "ratchet".

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Having to take ESL classes in elementary.

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In 5th grade

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When I was bullied for being the only Black person in the classroom when I was in Middle school.

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I feel like I always knew I was black but I never had to become hyper aware until moving to America

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The first time I realized I was Latinx was when a boy in elementary school told me I looked really tan when it started to get closer to summertime and made fun of me for it.

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Growing up I was taught that I was Hispanic and nothing else. Father born and raised in Dominican Republic and mother born and raised in Puerto Rico. It was not until college that I started to learn more about my culture and realized why my skin color was a certain shade and my hair was a certain coil and texture. I now identify as a black woman when people ask what my race with but I also acknowledge my hispanic background as well.

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College, freshmen yearr

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Being from a small rural rather very white town, I'd say my first time truly realizing it was when I worked on a farm side by side with migrant workers who were from Jamaica, Mexico, and other South American countries. Who all had different views, languages, and reasons for working