Think Pink!

Think Pink!, acrylic on masonite, 36"x24"

When I was eight, I left a predominantly Native American school to attend an all-African-American school that had just opened its enrollment to non-blacks. I had extreme difficulty explaining to my classmates that I wasn't "white," I was pink. That made sense to me. Canada has the concept of "metís" and Mexico has the concept of "mestizo," but the United States still retains an either/or mentality to ethnicity even when an increasingly large segment of the population comes from a multiethnic background.