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When You Are the Racial Minority in Your Partner's Family

I am the only white person at my husband's family gatherings and I oscillate between trying too hard to fit in and feeling resentful that I have to.

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More people experience this than they realize.

What we've seen

The exhaustion of code-switching reveals how belonging demands a performance that feels both necessary and false.

Ideas that help explain it
Worth thinking about

“Where Are You with Interracial and Cross-Cultural Partnerships?”

If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.