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Mehta, Samira K.
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Racially mixed people -- Kinship.
Racially mixed people -- Race identity.
Racially mixed families.
Racism.
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Mehta, Samira K.
Racially mixed people -- Kinship.
Racially mixed people -- Race identity.
Racially mixed families.
Racism.
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The racism of
people
who love you : essays on
mixed
race belonging / Samira K. Mehta.
by
Mehta, Samira K.
Beacon Press, 2023.
Call #:
305.8 M498r
Subjects
Racially
mixed
people
--
Kinship
.
Racially
mixed
people
--
Race identity.
Racially
mixed
families.
Racism.
ISBN:
9780807026366 (hc)
Alternate title:
Essays on
mixed
race belonging
Description:
x, 187 p. ; 23 cm.
Summary:
"An unflinching look at the challenges and misunderstandings mixed-race
people
face in family spaces and intimate relationships across their varying cultural backgrounds. In this emotionally powerful and intellectually provocative blend of memoir, cultural criticism, and theory, scholar and essayist Samira Mehta reflects on many facets of being multiracial. Born to a white American and a South Asian immigrant, Mehta grew up feeling more comfortable with her mother’s family than her father’s
--
they never carried on conversations in languages she couldn’t understand or blamed her for finding the food was too spicy. In adulthood, she realized that some of her Indian family’s assumptions about the world had become an indelible part of her
--
and that her well-intentioned parents had not known how to prepare her for a world that would see her as a person of color. Popular belief assumes that mixedness gives you the ability to feel at home in more than one culture, but the flipside shows you can feel just as alienated in those spaces. In 7 essays that dissect her own experiences with a frankness tempered by generosity, Mehta confronts questions about: authenticity and belonging ; conscious and unconscious cultural inheritance ; appropriate mentorship ; the racism of
people
who love you. The Racism of
People
Who Love You invites
people
of
mixed
race into the conversation on race in America and the melding of found and inherited cultures of hybrid identity."--Publisher.
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Essays.
Memoirs.
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