For Interracial Couples, Growing Acceptance, With A Few Exceptions

For Interracial Couples, Growing Acceptance, With A Few Exceptions

By Brooke Lea Foster

  • Nov. 26, 2020

I often forgot that my infant son, Harper, didn’t look like me when I was a new mother living on the Upper West Side of Manhattan in 2010. When I pressed him around the community, I was thinking of him since the perfect brown baby, soft-skinned and tulip-lipped, with the full mind of black colored locks, just because it absolutely was the little armenia mobile exact opposite of my blond waves and fair epidermis.

“He’s adorable. Exactly just just What nationality is his mother?” a middle-aged white girl asked me personally outside Barnes & Noble on Broadway 1 day, mistaking me personally for the nanny.Continue reading