Tag: inter racial couples

Road Trip Through Curacao: Where Everybody Knows my Name…Aint Nanny

By psychologistmimi on August 25, 2012 • ( 1 Comment )

Wow! In Curacao I am a mommy. As a brown mother of a white baby in the United States, I often get mistaken for being the nanny. Such a statement may sound a bit odd to some of you; but that is the state of affairs of racial […]

The Good, the Bad, & the Ugly of Ethnic and Racial “Passing” (oh the politics)

By psychologistmimi on August 5, 2012 • ( Leave a comment )

The ability to “pass” is often a loaded term and a loaded action. My son and I both can “pass” in different contexts for different ethnic or racial groups. When I visited Egypt, they thought I was French. When I lived in Spain, they thought I was Tunisian. […]