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The Racism of People Who Love You

Essays on Mixed Race Belonging

Author Samira Mehta
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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.
Author’s Note
Introduction


ONE
Where Are You Really From? A Triptych

TWO
Meat Is Murder

THREE
Failing the Authenticity Test

FOUR
American Racism

FIVE
Appropriation

SIX
Mentoring

SEVEN
The Racism of People Who Love You

Acknowledgments
Samira K. Mehta is an associate professor of women and gender studies and of Jewish studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research and teaching focus on the intersections religion, culture, and gender, including the politics of family life and reproduction in the United States. Her first book, Beyond Chrismukkah: The Christian-Jewish Blended Family in America, was a National Jewish book award finalist. Mehta’s current academic book project, God Bless the Pill: Sexuality and Contraception in Tri-Faith America is forthcoming from the University of North Carolina Press. Connect with her online at samiramehta.com and on Twitter @samirakmehta.
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About

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.

Table of Contents

Author’s Note
Introduction


ONE
Where Are You Really From? A Triptych

TWO
Meat Is Murder

THREE
Failing the Authenticity Test

FOUR
American Racism

FIVE
Appropriation

SIX
Mentoring

SEVEN
The Racism of People Who Love You

Acknowledgments

Author

Samira K. Mehta is an associate professor of women and gender studies and of Jewish studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. Her research and teaching focus on the intersections religion, culture, and gender, including the politics of family life and reproduction in the United States. Her first book, Beyond Chrismukkah: The Christian-Jewish Blended Family in America, was a National Jewish book award finalist. Mehta’s current academic book project, God Bless the Pill: Sexuality and Contraception in Tri-Faith America is forthcoming from the University of North Carolina Press. Connect with her online at samiramehta.com and on Twitter @samirakmehta.
Samira Mehta View titles by Samira Mehta

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    Essays on Mixed Race Belonging
    Samira Mehta
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    Essays on Mixed Race Belonging
    Samira Mehta
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    Essays on Mixed Race Belonging
    Samira Mehta
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    The Racism of People Who Love You
    Essays on Mixed Race Belonging
    Samira Mehta
    978-0-8070-0776-1
    $24.00 US
    Audiobook Download
    Beacon Press
    Jan 10, 2023
  • The Racism of People Who Love You
    The Racism of People Who Love You
    Essays on Mixed Race Belonging
    Samira Mehta
    978-0-8070-0777-8
    $45.00 US
    Audiobook Download
    Beacon Press
    Jan 10, 2023
  • The Racism of People Who Love You
    The Racism of People Who Love You
    Essays on Mixed Race Belonging
    Samira Mehta
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    Ebook
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