Brown White Black: An American Family at the Intersection of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Religion (Hardcover)
Brown White Black is a portrait of Nishta J. Mehra’s family: her white wife, her adopted black child, and their experiences dealing with America’s rigid ideas of race, gender, and sexuality. Mehra writes candidly about her efforts to protect and shelter her young child from racial slurs on the playground and intrusive questions by strangers, while also educating her child on the realities and dangers of being black in America. She also discusses her childhood, coming out as queer, her experience as an adoptive mother who is brown, and what it’s like to be constantly confronted by others’ confusion, concern, and expectations about her child and her family..
Both generous and challenging, Brown White Black is a remarkable portrait of a loving family on the front lines of some of the most fraught conversations in our culture.
Author: Nishta J. Mehra Suggested Retail Price: $25.00
Brown White Black is a portrait of Nishta J. Mehra’s family: her white wife, her adopted black child, and their experiences dealing with America’s rigid ideas of race, gender, and sexuality. Mehra writes candidly about her efforts to protect and shelter her young child from racial slurs on the playground and intrusive questions by strangers, while also educating her child on the realities and dangers of being black in America. She also discusses her childhood, coming out as queer, her experience as an adoptive mother who is brown, and what it’s like to be constantly confronted by others’ confusion, concern, and expectations about her child and her family..
Both generous and challenging, Brown White Black is a remarkable portrait of a loving family on the front lines of some of the most fraught conversations in our culture.
Author: Nishta J. Mehra Suggested Retail Price: $25.00
Brown White Black is a portrait of Nishta J. Mehra’s family: her white wife, her adopted black child, and their experiences dealing with America’s rigid ideas of race, gender, and sexuality. Mehra writes candidly about her efforts to protect and shelter her young child from racial slurs on the playground and intrusive questions by strangers, while also educating her child on the realities and dangers of being black in America. She also discusses her childhood, coming out as queer, her experience as an adoptive mother who is brown, and what it’s like to be constantly confronted by others’ confusion, concern, and expectations about her child and her family..
Both generous and challenging, Brown White Black is a remarkable portrait of a loving family on the front lines of some of the most fraught conversations in our culture.
Author: Nishta J. Mehra Suggested Retail Price: $25.00
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