Brown, White, Black: An American Family at the Intersection of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Religion -

Nishta J. Mehra

Picador

2019

224 páginas

7h 28m

ISBN-10: 1250133556

A beautiful and profound memoir about family and motherhood, race, and raising a black son in America today
In this moving collection of essays from a fresh new voice, Nishta J. Mehra takes us into her life—the daughter of Indian American immigrants, the wife of a white Christian woman from Texas, and the mother of an adopted black son, Shiv. Nishta's life is a series of intersecting boundaries—of race, gender, sexuality, and religion—and these essays examine the ways she navigates the various communities and ideologies that make up her family's life. This is a book about moving between boundaries and establishing a space for yourself and your children that doesn't conform to rigid notions of what it means to be a family. Nishta writes movingly of her love for her son, and her desire to protect him at all costs, even as she also feels responsible for preparing him for the harsh realities of being a black man in America today.