What Loving Can Show Us About Multiracial ParentingPosted in Articles, Family/Parenting, Media Archive, United States on 2016-10-31 20:27Z by Steven |
What Loving Can Show Us About Multiracial Parenting
TIME
2016-10-31
Lise Ragbir, Public Voices Fellow and Director of the Warfield Center Gallery
University of Texas, Austin
 Ruth Negga and Joel Edgerton in Loving. (Focus Features) |
‘Let’s stop assuming all families are one color’
America has come a long way since Mildred and Richard Loving took their case to the U.S. Supreme Court in 1967 to fight and win the right for a black woman to marry a white man. But have we come far enough?
Now the subject of a major motion picture debuting Nov. 4, Loving, that interracial couple went on to have three children. Given their then-unconventional family, I wonder what they faced when they went out in public as a family. As a black spouse in an interracial union today, I can tell you. My daughter was 6-months-old the first time I got the question: “Is that your baby?”…
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