Not to mention that the boundaries of 'whiteness' have shifted. Back when my mom was a wee girl starting school at P.S. 221, there were many among my dad's people who wouldn't have seen her or her family as 'white'. There still are many who don't, including, now, a growing number of my maternal people. On my dad's side, I'm a second-generation Anglo-Saxon anti-racist. Yes, we do exist, but we're still too rare.