The Race Card Project
By Michele Norris
Maureen Shuh
New Orleans, LA
In New Orleans, my children are told by teachers to check one box for race since there is no multi-racial box to check on school and standardized school forms. The teacher will tell my sons what to check based on which race s/he feels is closest to our sons’ appearance. This is very confusing for our children and makes them choose which race (mine or my husband’s) that they prefer to be known as.
Kathleen Wieland
Norwich, CT
I’m a 6th generation New Orleanian & a genealogist. My natural-blonde sister & I had always hoped to find something “interesting” in the family tree to explain her incredible tan – as well as some very dark complexions & hair in one of our “purebred German” lines. I got very excited when a distant cousin (another branch of the family) found privateer Pierre Lafitte’s mulatto mistress among her ancestry. Alas, a genealogical analysis of my DNA turned up no African ancestors much closer than “Lucy”! There is only one river, there is only one sea, there is only one race – and it is human.
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