PROJECTS: Blended Nation (portfolio 1)
Alexis Half White (English), Half African (Mchaga from Tanzania) Photographed at Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut Blended Nation: Portraits and Interviews of Mixed Race America
"When I was four-years-old, a classmate innocently prodded, “Is that your mother?” And I naively replied, “Of course,” only to hear in return, “No, your real mother?” As I approached the sidewalk that afternoon to meet the woman in question, I looked down at my brown skin and up at my mother’s white complexion and recognized for the first time that I was different."
