"As Yale historian Matthew Frye Jacobson has asked: 'Why is it that in the United States, a white woman can have black children but a black woman cannot have white children?'"
"I've never felt more self-consciously black than while holding our little white girl's hand in public."
"African-Americans represent almost one third of the 510,000 children in foster care, so black parents have a relatively high chance of ending up with a same-race child. (Not so for would-be adoptive white parents who prefer the rarest thing of all in the foster-care system: a healthy white baby.) But the dearth of black families with nonblack children also has painful historical roots. Economic hardship and centuries of poisonous belief in the so-called civilizing effects of white culture upon other races have familiarized Americans with the concept of white stewardship of other ethnicities, rather than the reverse."
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