LOVE IN BLACK AND WHITE

                         "The Premise of this book is simple: if we honestly want to examine race relations in America, who better to observe than interracial couples, whose lives form a unique bridge between black and white cultures? Biracial families teach us from firsthand experience about the invisible cast system that haunts our national consciousness.  This examination of black and white romance offers an intensely personal perspective on one of our most challenging national questions-can our society move beyond the resentment, guilt, and expectations that are the legacy of slavery and segregation?  To me, the most compelling communication is the individual story.  Documentary photography focuses directly on the human condition through the unblinking gaze of a camera.  When coupled with the personal interview , a life is revealed, softening our innate distrust of strangers or 'those people'.  The couples in Love in Black and White are visible proof that racial harmony can be achieved, and the radiant faces of their children are a living reproach to the ignorance of bigotry."  From the introduction by author/photographer Mary Motley Kalergis.                

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