wave of young africans to travel abroad to get an education. they ended up getting married, having me. my father decided he wanted to get his ph.d., obtained a scholarship to go to harvard. he moved there, but the separation made it difficult for them to stay together, not to mention this was an interracial couple at the brink of the civil rights movement. my mother was from kansas, and she was born to a pair of fairly typical midwestern white americans in a lot of ways. what made them remarkable was that they ended up being more open-minded and accepting of difference and diversity than i think was maybe typical of their