Racial Intolerance: “Through the Eyes of My Mulatto Daughter”

In her novel, Through the Eyes of My Mulatto Daughter Michele Waters writes a story about an interracial family that experienced dysfunction as a result of the old southern culture. Marylyn black while her husband, Richard, is white: Marylyn feels hate as a result of being excluded from family affairs. Brittany grows up witnessing this hatred between her grandfather and her mother. Giving her account of events, Brittany cites that she has been inspired to perceive life in a more independent and untrusting way specifically to the white communities. The author introduces different characters who have significantly impacted the life of Brittany from the time she lost her brother to managing Ebony’s Eyes Home.

The book is story of an interracial family who is confronted with the hardships of old southern white living. Brittany who is a blended little girl of Richard and Marylyn has grown up to witness firsthand the dreadful occasions her mom has needed to confront by being coupled to a white man. The occasions that have sought all through her young grown-up life have formed her into a free and untrusting individual of the white race. The relationship which united Brittney Adams' folks was of anything other than comfort. Richard Adams wedded Marilyn at once in America where Black individuals were beaten for amusement in a 1960s Alabama. Being a product of a clearly white racist family with a staunch extremist as leader of the family unit, Richard's affection was, if nothing else, unhuman. Steadfast by nature, Marilyn responded Richard's risk with a relentless love and dedication.

Through this book many characters are presented that significantly affect Brittany's life, from her departed siblings to her inconvenience occupant at Ebony's Eyes home. The book begins off with Brittany appearing to her parent's home to discover her dad has been killed. The main individual home amid this fight is her mom and now late father. Since her mom is black and her dad is white, promptly the fault is being put on her mom for the murder. During the time Richard has not been the most adoring or minding spouse to ordinary benchmarks. There has been physical and mental viciousness curved to Marylyn from Richard throughout the years. The book then starts to backpedal so as to clarify the hardships her dad had persisted throughout the years since he was coupled to lady (black). He had experienced childhood in the south amid the social liberties period, where blacks and whites were not observed to be equivalent by any methods. Richard's dad was an outdated supremacist disapproved of male, where in his mind he thought blacks and whites ought to have no kind of communication.  

The story begins when Brittany showed up at her parents’ house and found out that her father had been murdered. At the time of her realization of what was happening, her father was lying down and her mother seated on the sofa; and she did not think her mother might have murdered Richard. Brittany reflects how her father has been less compassionate...