I’m their mom, not the nanny.
Allison A, Yakima, WA. Sometimes it’s nanny, sometimes it’s babysitter or neighbor, but being asked if I was their grandmother was a first for me....
Jenny has made you a pie
Trey Willy Seale, AL I was small and white. Jenny was old and black. She took care of me when I was little when my...
Guilt. I loved my Annie so.
Lisa VonTress Las, Sunrise, FL. As a child growing up in the DC suburbs, I had no idea about what was going on. I had...
(My) black nanny taught me to love
RANDOLPH F BROCK Soquel, CA Thank you for doing this project. As a gay man it is close to my heart.
LuElla’s quilt has kept me warm
Carol Stritikus Aitken, Duluth, GA. LuElla’s Quilt LuElla’s quilt has kept me warm through winter night and summer storm when I would hide beneath its...
Why’d my black nanny love me?
Sharon Raven Clark, Mammoth Lakes, CA 83 yrs ago, Anna knew all about the continuing atrocities of whites against blacks…yet she loved me…why??? how could...
I’ve been called my sister’s nanny.
Mary Carroll, Columbia, SC. I am biracial and adopted into a white family. Growing up in a very southern affluent area, people were always asking...
Hi. You must be the nanny.
Mayra Cramer, Menlo Park, CA. I’m a brown typically Hispanic looking upper middle class woman living in an affluent suburb of San Francisco. I’ve allways...
Yes, I really am North African.
Hannah, St. Louis, MO. My mother is from Africa. She has dark skin. My father is Swedish. My mother used to get asked if she...
I’m not babysitting, they’re my children
Lisa Adams, Canada I am a single mother to five children of various cultural and ethnic backgrounds. Strangers tend to assume I’m running a daycare....
They assume my wife’s the nanny.
Sean Robertson, Kensington, MD. People impressed with how my wife handles our children have stopped her on the street to ask what agency she was...
No, I am not the nanny.
Liliane Dizon, Tampa, FL. Each time I have been pregnant, people (mostly white women) have said the rudest things to me. Most recently, as my...
No, not the nanny… They’re MINE.
Valerie Grajeda Rountree, San Jose, CA. I grew up not speaking Spanish in a very Mexican neighborhood. My mother sent me to schools out of...
I’m his mother, not the nanny.
Toya Dragseth, Saint Paul, MN. My youngest son is biracial. Has his Fathers genes, very light-skinned, brownish blonde hair and when he is with just...
How much do they pay you?
Rosa-Maria Lazarovits, Santa Barbara, CA. This happened when my girls were toddlers and we played at a park. A latino woman approached me and asked...
(My) black nanny taught me to love
RANDOLPH F BROCK Soquel, CA Thank you for doing this project. As a gay man it is close to my heart.
Not the nanny. That’s my daughter.
Daphne Revie, Compound, NY. Taking my daughter as a baby to libraries and play groups only nannies would talk to me assuming I too was...
