Alaikumassalam,
Well I for one believe that you will have no trouble fitting into the mold of Islam. In fact I believe that it is part of Muslim practise to prevent expressions such as that 'personal' one which slipped from limitless, that you might not have NO difficulty, but because of the surrounding society.
I believe that it is an important aspect of Islamic practise to work towards being uneffected by racial discrimination in what ever form it takes and among whom so ever lowers themself.
Literally white skin is transparent. That is the difference; it is a lack of pigment. The pigment can be protective from over exposure and the pigment is often associated with stronger liver function. However, I am not Caucasian, and nor am I Anglo-Saxon, although the white in me is of intermarriage of my Ancestors with Anglo-Saxons. Actually my skin is different in texture from that of most white persons, and also different from East Asian complexion. Less poreous. Australian Aborigines who are white tend to go more wrinkly younger also, and retain an oiler complexion that most caucasions have. We wrinkle up good and proper! I have seen photos of the elderly in places like Afganistan with similar white complexions. Most folk seem to suppose that we just get too much sun. But I am adamant, my parents drilled me upon avoiding sunburn and I am very especially careful in that regard, believing that the skin difference is a matter of cultural expectation in what we perceive of ourself. It is truly about managing the internal attitude to vanity.
I am among the Black Aboriginal Australian Kinship, as well as the local Ummah, and the Ummah connected with the Madhab of the Mosque I occassionally attend. It is very real that most black skin persons are falling to supposing that any white skin person owes them from racial oppression, and so it is that some among black reverts to Islam want their practise to be exclusive of whites. But that is only because they have not yet fully comprehended Islam. There are also many black Muslims in the local Ummah as is the Imam at Mosque. While Muslims may discriminate between the capacities enabled by various biological features (really it is important for white folk to be less in the sunshine that black folk actually need) it is that there is no rating of any biological feature that is sustaining to life as better or worse than any other.
The reality is that racial discrimination, by which any blame is accorded, is all at all times caused by The Dajjal, and is therefore the result only of black magic. Islam just happens to be the Religion that arose within the earliest possible context for fully elucidating the means to avoid black magic. (that is the tricks that the four beasts, who Daniel in the old testament Dreamed, caused by becoming beasts, are acts of black magic that repeat whenever any person falls to such) That is why, will all respect due to Limitless in that I am not aware of the American condition; I must reassure any person considering Islam that there is no need to fear ever being accused of taking a black person's place as a white person within an Islamic world veiw.
Plenty of local blacks here don't like me much just because I am white, but they always provide me with recognition of being in Kinship with. That is how I come to be able to comprehend that a black persons experience is remarkably different. But also that when black persons blame a white person only by cause of being white; they are saddly engaging in the causes of their own oppression. This is the knowledge of Islam. Every person in time will gradually and naturally fall toward that established genetic by which we may best meet the need of our Soul. While I gravitate toward black communities without even intending to; there are black skin folk whom can not help but gravitate towards white social patterns. In Islam we are encouraged to form the habit patterns that are most suited to the very cause of our Soul, rather than the habit patterns of the culture that has produced the specific manifestations of genetics which we inhabit in this day.
It is good to know this fact, since there could be some Mosques local to you which align with a Madhab (school) that have members with a larger proportion of one racial feature or another. But it is not the external manifestations of biology by which such persons belong together. It is the internal mental structures. These accord best aligned with the tribes of Israel. Yet another fact that can define the biology most suited to each our individual Soul is our correct attunement in Allah with the final degree of evolution Allah has foreseen for each of us. Persons whom are more able to accept pain with less complaint and as duty, are more likely to be black; and distinctly are also more enabled in evolution of Spirit, that acccords the practise that Soul need. There are Aboriginal Australians whom like so much complaining about white folk experiencing less pain than they do, that he obvious solution is to let them gradually become white according to an ongoing process since Australia was invaded. But in which surely also some of us learn the hard way to prefer to be a black skin person. So we will all be a mixed bag for a time to come yet, if not quite permanently.
I wonder is there any ahadith about what our racial appearance is likely to be in Jannah?
The local black fellas call me a Mussie Gubborigine. Mussie for Muslim; Gubbah is a white fella; and recognition that I am within Aboriginal cutlure. In our culture we identify by self mockery. So I should quit making so many words while I am ahead?
mu'asalam