It's interesting what you say about "having always lived in a place where I was the racial majority". Made me think about the fact that in the past ten fifteen years I have been living in places where I was the racial minority. Sometimes I zoom out of the picture and I see this, sometimes I see it in other people's eyes, but most of the time I don't even realize I am a minority. Maybe because it remains a strong minority (I belong to the so-called "white" group). But then thinking about it, in my home country Italy although I look like the majority, ethnically and culturally speaking I have always belonged to a minority (jew - atheist family against the so-called catholic majority). But then...how could you be part of the majority in New York, where the majority is of mixed origins?