Marriage beyond Black and White An Interracial Family Portrait

by Douglas, David; Douglas, Barbara

• ISBN13: 9781931847049
• ISBN10: 1931847045
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2002-10-01
• Publisher: Baha'i Publishing

Summary

A powerful story about the marriage of a black man and a white woman, this volume offers a poignant and sometimes painful look at what it was like to be an interracial couple in the United States from the early 1940s to the mid-1990s.

Author Biography

David Douglas, an educator and frequent speaker on improving race relations in America, provides an adult child's perspective on the experience and brings the family chronicle up to the present. His contribution fulfills a promise made to his mother just before her death in 1995. Barbara Douglas—an educator, a writer, a mother of four, and a front-line advocate for multiracial and multiethnic families—covers the early years of her marriage to Carlyle, describing how the young family coped with the day-to-day realities of life in Chicago and Detroit.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
Introduction	5	(14)
Part 1 / Barbara's Story: Personae Non Gratae
The Last Flaming Ray	19	(10)
A Man of Integrity	29	(14)
Whither Thou Goest	43	(10)
Poor Little Mongrel Baby	53	(14)
No Room at the Inn	67	(10)
Banished	77	(10)
Dusty Road to Peace	87	(10)
Among His People	97	(12)
Journey with No Return	109	(8)
No Negroes Allowed	117	(6)
Wind-Twisted Fir	123	(10)
Dark Clouds	133	(16)
Exodus	149	(8)
Part 2 / David's Story: Between Two Worlds
The Gardens	157	(14)
``You White, Ain't You?''	171	(12)
A Different World	183	(8)
School Years	191	(6)
Family Life	197	(10)
Alone	207	(12)
Trouble in Paradise	219	(10)
Escape	229	(14)
Resurrection	243	(16)
The Next Generation	259	(8)
Love and Marriage	267	(10)
Grandmother's Legacy	277	(10)
No Tomorrow	287	(12)
Moving On	299	(10)
Twilight	309	(14)
Afterthoughts	323	(24)
Index	347