Wheatish / Rhea Goveas, Indian American
Too dark / Miho Iwata, Japanese (Permanent U.S. Resident)
Sang duc ho / Catherine Ma, Chinese American
You're so white, you're so pretty / Sambath Meas, Khmer American
You have such a nice tan! / Ethel Nicdao, Filipina American
Brown arms / Tanzila Ahmed, Bangladeshi American
Hopes for my daughter / Bhoomi K. Thakore, Indian American
Blessed with beautiful skin / Rhea Manglani, Indian American
Shai hei / Rosalie Chan, Chinese/Filipina American
Whiteness is slippery / Julia Mizutani, Multiracial Japanese/White American
Regular inmates / Sonal Nalkur, Indo-Canadian (currently resides in the U.S.)
Magnetic repulsion / Brittany Ota-Malloy, Multiracial Japanese/Black American
Part 3. Aspirational whiteness
Digital whiteness / Noor Hasan, Pakistani American
Mrs. santos' whitening cream / Agatha Roa, Pacific Islander American
Shade of brown / Noelle Marie Falcis, Filipina America
Creation stories / Sairah Husain, Pakistani American
What it means to be brown / Wendy Thompson Taiwo, multiracial Chinese/Black American
The perpetual outsider / Marimas Hosan Mostiller, Cham American
Part 5. Belonging and identity
What are you? / Anne Mai Yee Jansen, Multiracial Chinese/White American
Born Filipina, somewhere in between / Kim D. Chanbonpin, Filipina American
Invisible to my own people / Kamna Shastri, Indian American
Nobody deserves to feel like a foreigner in their own culture / Erika Lee, Taiwanese/Chinese American
Tired / Cindy Luu, Vietnamese American
The very best of you / Joanne L. Rondilla, Filipina American
Reprogramming / Daniela Pila, Filipina American
Cartographies of myself / Lillian Lu, Chinese American
The sun is calling my name / Rowena Mangohig, Filipina American
Abominable honhyeol / Julia R. DeCook, Multiracial Korean/White American
Dear future child / Kathy Tran-Peters, Vietnamese American
Teeth / Betty Ming Liu, Chinese American.