"My Daughter Married a Negro" | |
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Short story by Anonymous | |
Language | English |
Genre(s) | essay/article |
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Published in | Harper's Magazine |
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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]