Being half-Kurdish

It sucks looking white, but I'm half white/Kurdish, but not many people know. My father is a white man from the state of Wyoming and my mother was a Kurdish refugee out of Kirkuk in 1979. Not a whole lot of people know I'm Kurdish, but I really don't want to identify as white. Another project I'm working on is to actually learn the language better, so I've been looking for some resource materials to help with that. Any thoughts?