Help Wanted: Race Jargon For Kid/YA Books

Is my protagonist a ...

• Person of color?
  
• Asian-American?
  
• Asian (no hyphen) American?
  
• Brown?
  
• South Asian American?
  
• Bengali-American?
  
• Desi?
  
• Non-white?
  
• A minority?
  
• Multicultural?

WHAT THE HECK IS SHE?

(WHAT THE HECK AM I? Who cares? Most of North America.)

Please help: How do you define yourself by race in America today and why?