The Race Card Project
By Michele Norris
Elizabeth Clair Winslow,
Denver, CO.
No one from my immediate family showed up when George and I were married. But when Olivia was born, all that changed. George was from Jamaica… a brown man. I was from Maryland; Mom said black Irish. Olivia teaches us about Intersectionality and Bias, twenty years later.
Dan Hubbs,
Queensbury, NY.
Mixed race ancestry was a family mystery. When visiting Irish relatives in Ireland, all of whom were fair skinned, I knew there was something else in my background. It turns out my mother’s father’s family, who were quite adamant about their “English” heritage, were mixed race and from the British West Indies.
Joan Socorro Sullivan,
Minneapolis, MN.
I’m a quarter Mexican and over half Irish, I don’t attend church and I don’t drink. My hair is dark brown, my eyes are blue, I freckle like no one’s business; there’s the black Irish. My hips and bosom refuse to fit in anything smaller than a medium since I was 14 and my accent when speaking Spanish is unidentifiable as American. When I was little my mom spoke some Spanish to us which means I can pronounce the language I’ve spent 19 years learning. It’s odd to be such a mix and look so basic, breaking stereotypes.
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