Item details: Brown, white, black : an American family at the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, and religion - 48230114

Brown, white, black : an American family at the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, and religion

text Brown, white, black : an American family at the intersection of race, gender, sexuality, and religion

Summary: Essays describe how the author's experiences as an Indian American, the wife of a white Christian woman, and the mother of an adopted black son have been challenged by rigid cultural family norms.

Contents: All-American ethnic girl -- Black is the color of my true love's hair -- Working the trap -- Voluntarily bald -- Wrestling with ghosts -- Cult of motherhood -- The sin of our security -- Raising Shiv -- Making space -- Pretending to be white -- (N... Read more

Format: text

Description: 211 pages ; 22 cm

Publisher: Picador 2019

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Woodmere (Main Branch)	921 MEHRA, NISHTA MEH in Adult Non-fiction	Available

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