Ask a Bookseller: 'The Racism of People Who Love You'
Andrea King of Left Bank Books in St. Louis, Mo., recommends the nonfiction read “The Racism of People Who Love You: Essays on Mixed Race Belonging” by Samira K. Mehta. Part memoir, part cultural criticism, with a dash of theory, these essays draw on Mehta's experience growing up with one white and one South Asian parent.“I really loved this book,” said King. “It kind of put into words a lot of experiences, thoughts and feelings that I've had being a biracial person, [that I] didn't really know how to articulate or didn't really know if they were like, valid. So it made me feel really seen…
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