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...should have been beyond journalistic ethics to profile someone I know so well, but Tracey's story tells itself. As Tracey's mom put it to me, "There's so much. Tracey is like writing a book." She's the sort of person you would ordinarily never read about in The Crimson: far too private. She admits she knows very few people. She spent her time here studying for her Afro-American Studies classes, working in Schlesinger library at Radcliffe, and tutoring kids in Dorchester, but mostly just hanging out in her house, the Dudley Co-op, a cooperative living...
Carter isn't sure how her mother and father ended up getting together. "I don't really know. They were friends in high school. My mom wasn't allowed to see Black people. They were never seeing each other, never dating, never married." Her mother, Judy Carter, and a friend, Becky Barnes, raised the Child, and Tracey never saw her father until she was 18. She has visited with him for only a few hours since. After getting over the amazement that someone else in the world looked like her, she spent the entire night arguing with him about...
Carter was born in Peoria, Ill, and "moved around a lot for no reason. My mom was not into setting down." Most of Carter's childhood was spent in Burlington, lowa ("a town nobody's heard of I'm sure") but lived all over Oklahoma, Arizona, Kansas, Texas at various points. Even Carter says she isn't really sure why her mother was always on the move. "Ask her," she says. "I've always woundered. She had wanderlust. She was young." Tracey's mother confirms Tracey's suggestion. "My biggest amibition in life was to travel. I had Tracey before...
Tracey considers both Judy Carter and Barnesher mothers. "My Aunt Becky and my mom were bothmy moms. They weren't sisters. They were just bothmy moms." Tracey says she loved her family. "Mymom's never been married which was great for me. Ireally loved it. Looking at my friends' familydynamics I feel really privileged to have grown upwith two women who never fought and who neverpresented any obstacles." Like many proud parents,Tracey's mom says "I'm so proud I could bawl...
...never rebelled against Mom and Aunt Beckybecause there was nothing to rebel against,"Carter says, even though she admits she hatedlowa. "They put no rules on me. They didn't carewho I brought home. They cared that I didn't hurtany body." Carter pauses. "I really idealize them.I was happy...