白人母亲：就这个？

White mother: Is that it?

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我们有很多挑战，不是么，一个白人母亲抚养两个黑人女孩？

Did we have our challenges, two little black girls being raised by a white mother?

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当玛利亚的白人母亲与黑人父亲结婚时，跨种族的婚姻在美国还是无法接收的事情。

When Mariah's Caucasian mother and afro-Latino father got married, cross-race marriage was still a big deal in the States.

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There is this social context of race relations whose grammar he is also learning, and I would just remind you of the passage where he starts to ask his mother about whether his granny is white or not.

一种来自家庭无可绘状的影响,当时社会的种族对立，对他学习的语言也有很深的影响,各位看一下当他问母亲,祖母是白人还是黑人？

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