Buy this book on-line Nishta J. Mehra : Brown White Black: An American Family at the Intersection of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and ReligionPicador, New York, 2019 ISBN 1250133556
8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. N3 - A first edition (stated with complete numberline) hardcover book SIGNED by Nishta J. Mehra on the title page in very good condition in very good dust jacket. Dust jacket has some wrinkling and crease on the edges and corners, some water soiled patches on the top edges and corners, light discoloration and shelf wear. Book has some bumped corners, wrinkling on the spine edges, light tanning and shelf wear. Includes a laid in promotional card. 8.5"x5.5", 211 pages. Satisfaction Guaranteed. 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. Her clear-eyed and incisive writing about adopting her black child and her family's daily struggle to make space for themselves amid racial intolerance and stereotypes personalizes the issues at the heart of our heated cultural debates. Mehra writes candidly about her efforts to protect and shelter her young child from racial slurs on the playground and from intrusive questions by strangers, while also educating her child on the realities and dangers of being black in America. In other essays, she discusses her childhood in the racially polarized city of Memphis; 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. Above all, Mehra argues passionately for a more nuanced and compassionate understanding of identity. As she writes, "to live life inside of ambiguity is to make room for a more complicated, messy kind of truth." 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.. Book Condition: Very Good. Binding: Hardcover. Jacket: Very Good Click here for full details of this book, to ask a question or to buy it on-line. Bibliophile Bookbase probably offers multiple copies of Nishta J. Mehra : Brown White Black: An American Family at the Intersection of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Religion. Click here to select from a complete list of available copies of this book. Bibliophile Bookbase lists over 5 million books, maps and prints including libri rari, used books, rare books, libri antichi and livres rares. Bibliophile Bookbase for antiquarian books, maps and prints. |