The Loving Generation

This episode explores the various ways that people from the Loving generation make sense of who they are. It begins with one of the main characters answering the question: What box do you check on a census form, and why?

Families are complicated, especially when they cross racial lines. We talk to members of the Loving generation about their familial relationships and how they deal with white parents and relatives who may not understand what it is to be black in America.

Evolving into one’s adult identity can be a complex process. In this episode, members of the Loving generation recount their early-to-mid-adulthoods and explain how they navigate their blackness, personally and professionally.

In the final episode of our series, interviewees explore what the election of the mixed-race Barack Obama meant to them, and the future of race relations in America.