15 Powerful Portraits Of Interracial Couples Paired With The Racist Comments They Received &n
15 Powerful Portraits Of Interracial Couples Paired With The Racist Comments They Received “You’ll never be able to give her what a white man could.”“All she wants from you is a green card.”“No other man will ever want you.”“You must like milk way”‘The series titled “Sticks and Stones” was inspired by a girl from the photographer’s previous project. “Her mother and I were catching up in the kitchen when she told me of the cruel taunts hurled at her daughter for dating a boy of another race,” Pinckley wrote in her artist statement. “As she was speaking I was reminded of another mother in another kitchen many years ago, whose daughter had been the object of similar racial slurs. What struck me was the resilience of both couples in the face of derision, their refusal to let others define them.”’ -- source link
#racism#interracial couples#awareness#powerful#knowledge#photo series#photo set