My Daughter Married a Negro
| "My Daughter Married a Negro" | |
|---|---|
| Short story by Anonymous | |
| Language | English |
| Genre(s) | essay/article |
| Publication | |
| Published in | Harper's Magazine |
| Media type | |
| Publication date | July 1951 |
"My Daughter Married a Negro" is an essay by an anonymous male author published in Harper's Magazine in the July 1951 issue.[1] It discussed the author's daughter Anne's marriage to an African American – referred to as a negro in the parlance of the time – college classmate in 1949, and details "his family's ordeal with their daughter marrying across the color line."[2] The article has since been much discussed in scholarship on racial relations in the United States.[2][3]
Told by the father, the article "described the escalating tension in a prototypical family faced with the possibility of an interracial marriage" and the parents' shock when they were told about their daughter's intention to marry a black man.[3]
See also
[edit]References
[edit]- ^ Anonymous (July 1951). "My Daughter Married a Negro". Harper's Magazine. pp. 36–40.
- ^ a b Magnuson-Cannady, Melissa (2005). ""My Daughter Married a Negro": Interracial Relationships in the United States as Portrayed in Popular Media, 1950–1975" (PDF). UW-L Journal of Undergraduate Research. VIII.
- ^ a b Renee Christine Romano, Race Mixing: Black-White Marriage in Postwar America, pp. 60–62, Harvard University Press, 2003