![]() ![]() It’s an atypical narrative-which is to say, one about a black woman-during an often-explored time in history. I imagine she was not unlike many young black women at the time in navigating a political awakening with the era’s respectability politics hanging over their head. Cheryl, the black roommate, is caught between the expectations of her father and the opportunities gradually opening up to her. The story follows the girls through their respective interracial relationships and self-discovery. ![]() ![]() Recent graduates of elite liberal arts colleges, the two girls are living together in 1963, “the year of race-creed-color blindness,” as the narrator says. The title story in Collins’ new book, “Whatever Happened to Interracial Love? ,” centers on the lives of two young civil rights activists, one black, one white. ![]()
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