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Analysis Of Rachel And Hewitt's 'Interracial Couples'

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Throughout this text, Rachel and Hewitt experience racial issues. In the beginning, Rachel states she did not realize that, by marrying Hewitt, she would become a member of the Interracial Couples group. At first, it seems that Rachel is against this, as she calls the group “mewling” and “defensive”. However, she rectifies herself when she states that they have reason to do so, as she has seen from her own circumstances how microaggressions can justify interracial couples’ beliefs. For example, Rachel states “Everywhere I went with Hewitt, strangers commented- in subtle and not so subtle ways- on the fact of our unlikely union: me, a white woman, married to him, a black man.” She goes on to explain how this consciousness affected and influenced

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