Today, America is full of mixed children and families, but do the kids know who they are based on them being part of a mixed family? Kids today might be confused about who they are and what race to they belong to because of the skin color of their parents, whether they have a black father and a white mother or vise versa. Their parents might not want them to fully understand what race they belong to because they don’t want their kids to start thinking about how society classes people based on their skin color. In result of this, kids don’t know what group or race they belong to because they are part of a mixed family. In The Color of Water by James McBride, James who is a mixed child doesn’t completely know who he is because of his mother
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James would be talking about his mother, how she would raise 12 amazing children and she would leave Suffolk and married a black man. James would be thankful that she stayed on the black side and for marrying his dad, James McBride, instead of staying in Suffolk and being a Jew, James would say, “But I’m glad she came over to the African American side”(274). James would be glad that his mother would go to the African American side and meet 2 wonderful men who she would raise 12 amazing kids who went to college with no money. He would fully understand himself as a mixed child by his mother being a Jewish immigrant and his father being a black man, where James would know how and his mother would marry a black guy. This would show James that anyone could marry anyone, no matter the skin color and how people of a mixed family can still be equal and treated the same as other people. James would fully explain that being mixed is a tingling feeling you get in your nose before you sneeze, but it never comes. He would later say, “Being mixed is like that tingling feeling . . . you have in your nose”(262). James would describe being mixed is that tingling feeling you get before you sneeze, but it never comes. He describes his own mixed race as a difficult place to be because you are always to be in the middle of a race situation. By James finally accepting himself as a child of a mixed race he fully understands why his mother wouldn’t explain the concept of race to him and how he is a mixed child, having a white mother with a black
James would be talking about his mother, how she would raise 12 amazing children and she would leave Suffolk and married a black man. James would be thankful that she stayed on the black side and for marrying his dad, James McBride, instead of staying in Suffolk and being a Jew, James would say, “But I’m glad she came over to the African American side”(274). James would be glad that his mother would go to the African American side and meet 2 wonderful men who she would raise 12 amazing kids who went to college with no money. He would fully understand himself as a mixed child by his mother being a Jewish immigrant and his father being a black man, where James would know how and his mother would marry a black guy. This would show James that anyone could marry anyone, no matter the skin color and how people of a mixed family can still be equal and treated the same as other people. James would fully explain that being mixed is a tingling feeling you get in your nose before you sneeze, but it never comes. He would later say, “Being mixed is like that tingling feeling . . . you have in your nose”(262). James would describe being mixed is that tingling feeling you get before you sneeze, but it never comes. He describes his own mixed race as a difficult place to be because you are always to be in the middle of a race situation. By James finally accepting himself as a child of a mixed race he fully understands why his mother wouldn’t explain the concept of race to him and how he is a mixed child, having a white mother with a black