I'm almost 30 and just now coming around to understanding my racial identity. Hoping to hear about how others resolved/are resolving this.

Both my maternal grandparents are Latin American immigrants, my dad is European/white. I always identified as white as I figured I had a lot of white privilege in ways other Latinx folks don't. I grew up in a very homogenous white area where you were white or black and there was little opportunity to understand the nuances of racial identity.

I'm in medical school now where I've been identified as a personal of color in professional settings a few times. The social determinants of health and the interplay between socioeconomic elements and health are important to me and it never dawned on me that I could be a part of any of these groups because I always felt so privileged. Race is complicated in the US and I can't ask my grandparents how they identified because they're both gone. But my DNA results (though admittedly fallible) say I'm 26% Indigenous.

So I've started leaning into mixed white/Indigenous. It's not perfect - in the US it seems people only think of North American tribal nations as Indigenous. And I have enough white privilege to sometimes feel guilty about identity out of a desire to be sensitive re: colonization.

I know this is common, especially in Americans who are mixed white/Latinx. What are your stories? How did you navigate this?

**note: I say Latinx because my grandparents are from different countries. It gets hard to elaborate sometimes.