There is something all people who live in the United States share—the experience of being put into a racial category.

Race is such an emotional topic that talking about it can be difficult. What Is Your Race? gives us a place where we can all begin.

The book invites readers to think back to their earliest memories of learning about race and how those memories are connected to the history of racial categories. Our memories are not just personal to us. In them, we find clues about how the racial categories came to be and why race is still so unsettling.