I'm also a half-breed, haven't really experienced a lot of racism in AK the way I did in the Midwest & southern states.  I will say going to school here & them calling it a melting pot was a joke.  The jocks hung together the stoners & nerds with their own etc but then it went by racial class almost, the rich white kids hung together the black kids & poor white kids clicked up, the natives, Samoans & Asians did the same thing.  Being a half-breed meant I didn't fit in at any of those tables & yet could fit in at many so I hung with the nerds mostly but listened to what others had to say.  This was WHS between 94-99.  (I've kept close ties with my classmates) Racism was pretty biased.  It targeted someone that pissed someone else off.  So they'd look for the thing that would hurt you the worst verbally. In college the adults used it like it was a joke.  "don't give the natives mouthwash they'll be drunk for days."  But face it that's still a racist remark.  When the prof laughed tho :(