James would be talking about his mother, how she would raise 12 amazing children and she would leave Suffolk and married a black man. James would be thankful that she stayed on the black side and for marrying his dad, James McBride, instead of staying in Suffolk and being a Jew, James would say, “But I’m glad she came over to the African American side”(274). James would be glad that his mother would go to the African American side and meet 2 wonderful men who she would raise 12 amazing kids who went to college with no money. He would fully understand himself as a mixed child by his mother being a Jewish immigrant and his father being a black man, where James would know how and his mother would marry a black guy. This would show James that anyone could marry anyone, no matter the skin color and how people of a mixed family can still be equal and treated the same as other people. James would fully explain that being mixed is a tingling feeling you get in your nose before you sneeze, but it never comes. He would later say, “Being mixed is like that tingling feeling . . . you have in your nose”(262). James would describe being mixed is that tingling feeling you get before you sneeze, but it never comes. He describes his own mixed race as a difficult place to be because you are always to be in the middle of a race situation. By James finally accepting himself as a child of a mixed race he fully understands why his mother wouldn’t explain the concept of race to him and how he is a mixed child, having a white mother with a black
James would be talking about his mother, how she would raise 12 amazing children and she would leave Suffolk and married a black man. James would be thankful that she stayed on the black side and for marrying his dad, James McBride, instead of staying in Suffolk and being a Jew, James would say, “But I’m glad she came over to the African American side”(274). James would be glad that his mother would go to the African American side and meet 2 wonderful men who she would raise 12 amazing kids who went to college with no money. He would fully understand himself as a mixed child by his mother being a Jewish immigrant and his father being a black man, where James would know how and his mother would marry a black guy. This would show James that anyone could marry anyone, no matter the skin color and how people of a mixed family can still be equal and treated the same as other people. James would fully explain that being mixed is a tingling feeling you get in your nose before you sneeze, but it never comes. He would later say, “Being mixed is like that tingling feeling . . . you have in your nose”(262). James would describe being mixed is that tingling feeling you get before you sneeze, but it never comes. He describes his own mixed race as a difficult place to be because you are always to be in the middle of a race situation. By James finally accepting himself as a child of a mixed race he fully understands why his mother wouldn’t explain the concept of race to him and how he is a mixed child, having a white mother with a black