Lee A Bambach

Powerful and eye-opening

Revisado: 01-16-23

Samira Mehta masterfully blends personal stories and academic scholarship, offering brilliant insights into the challenges of growing up and living as a mixed race person in the US.

As the White mother of mixed race children, the book was an eye-opener and made me think about how, in spite of my best intentions and efforts, I am unable to understand much of my children’s experience. But it also gave me hope that I can be better at it. I especially appreciated the way in which the author was able to give voice to the unique pain that the children of mixed families feel when they encounter racism from some of the people who love them most in the world, something I have seen in my own family, like when an older White family member challenges my Brown daughter, “why do you say that you are Brown? Is it because you want to get some kind of special benefit?”

Required reading (or listening) for anyone with any kind of a mixed family (the book speaks specifically about race but I think many of its insights would also be very pertinent to other types of mixed families, such as religious or ethnic) and strongly recommended for anyone who wants to learn more about the nuances of racism in the United States, especially as it applies to the rapidly growing number of mixed race people in this country.

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