{"id":46646,"date":"2016-04-21T00:15:35","date_gmt":"2016-04-21T00:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=46646"},"modified":"2016-04-21T00:15:35","modified_gmt":"2016-04-21T00:15:35","slug":"our-love-was-colour-blind-but-our-families-werent","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=46646","title":{"rendered":"Our love was colour blind… but our families weren’t"},"content":{"rendered":"

Our love was colour blind… but our families weren’t<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

The Daily Mail<\/a>
\nLondon, United Kingdom
\n2016-02-05<\/p>\n

Diana Appleyard<\/strong><\/a> and Clare Goldwin<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Deeply moving, and exposing tensions that still blight Britain today, mixed-race couples from four generations tell their stories<\/em><\/p>\n

‘MY FATHER THREW ME OUT OF THE HOUSE’: 1940s MARY AND JAKE JACOBS<\/p>\n

Mary, 81, is married to Jake, 86, and lives in Solihull<\/a> in the West Midlands<\/a>. They have no children. Mary is a former deputy head teacher, and Jake worked for the post office before retiring. Mary is white and Jake is black, originally from Trinidad<\/a>.<\/p>\n

MARY SAYS: When I told my father I was going to marry Jake he said, \u2018If you marry that man you will never set foot in this house again.\u2019<\/p>\n

He was horrified that I could contemplate marrying a black man, and I soon learned that most people felt the same way. The first years of our marriage living in Birmingham were hell \u2014 I cried every day, and barely ate. No one would speak to us, we couldn\u2019t find anywhere to live because no one would rent to a black man, and we had no money. …<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Our love was colour blind… but our families weren’t The Daily Mail London, United Kingdom 2016-02-05 Diana Appleyard and Clare Goldwin Deeply moving, and exposing tensions that still blight Britain today, mixed-race couples from four generations tell their stories ‘MY FATHER THREW ME OUT OF THE HOUSE’: 1940s MARY AND JAKE JACOBS Mary, 81, is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,414,8,10],"tags":[23590,9810,23589,3050],"class_list":["post-46646","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-family","category-media-archive","category-uk","tag-clare-goldwin","tag-daily-mail","tag-diana-appleyard","tag-the-daily-mail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46646","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=46646"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46646\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":46647,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46646\/revisions\/46647"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=46646"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=46646"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=46646"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}