"People don't want to have to identify with one side of their family...to the exclusion of the other," he says.
Choosing Sides
"You feel a pressure to choose a side," Sackeyfio says. "Whatever side you choose, the other side looks at you funny."
Branch is currently co-chair of Native Americans at Harvard College (NAHC), but she says she has switched back and forth in her involvement with NAHC and RAZA, the campus' large Latino group, many times. Branch has also been chair of the Minority Students Alliance, an umbrella organization for racial groups on campus.
"Which community do you give back to?" Branch asks. "It's really hard to do them both equally."
Krystle L. Dunwell '01, whose mother is Irish, Polish and Swedish, and whose father is Jamaican, Chinese and Native American, says she didn't fit in with either black or white people in high school.
"It's really hard to fit into a specific ethnic group," Dunwell says. "Not being able to identify with one or the other is probably the hardest thing."
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