I'm Bengali, my boyfriend was black - and my mum freaked out'

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When a young British Bengali woman with a black boyfriend got pregnant, her family's reaction forced her to confront their anti-black prejudices.


As she stomped away from her maternal home, Salma began tallying up her current status. Twenty-one, two months pregnant and now, homeless. The door slammed shut behind her. And all because she was a Bengali woman insisting on having a baby with a black man.


In her community, Bengali women "didn't have" babies out of wedlock - let alone mixed-race, dark-skinned babies.




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