{"id":57999,"date":"2019-05-03T15:16:07","date_gmt":"2019-05-03T15:16:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=57999"},"modified":"2019-05-03T18:50:16","modified_gmt":"2019-05-03T18:50:16","slug":"a-graphic-novel-that-answers-a-childs-question-about-being-biracial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=57999","title":{"rendered":"A Graphic Novel That Answers a Child\u2019s Question About Being Biracial"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Graphic Novel That Answers a Child\u2019s Question About Being Biracial<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Book Review<\/a>
\nThe New York Times<\/a>
\n2019-05-02<\/p>\n

Ed Park<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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\nMira Jacob<\/small><\/a><\/p>\n

For a person of color in America<\/a>, the term person of color can be both useful and divisive, at once a form of solidarity and a badge of alienation. There\u2019s a flattening effect, too: A multitude of ethnicities and cultures, with their own color-coded nuances, get crammed into the initials P.O.C.<\/a><\/p>\n

Among its many virtues, Mira Jacob\u2019s<\/a> graphic memoir, Good Talk<\/em><\/a> (One World, $30), helps us think through this term with grace and disarming wit. The book lives up to its title, and reading these searching, often hilarious t\u00eate-\u00e0-t\u00eates<\/a> \u2014 with her parents and brother, confidantes and strangers, employers and exes \u2014 is as effortless as eavesdropping on a crosstown bus.<\/p>\n

Mira lives in New York<\/a> with her husband, Jed, who is white and Jewish, and their young son, Z., who is dark-skinned like his mother \u2014 a poster for racial harmony that can, in the current climate, feel like a target. Born in New Mexico<\/a> to parents who immigrated from India<\/a> in 1968, Mira is simply \u201cbrown,\u201d if ethnically obscure, while growing up (\u201cYou\u2019re Indian like feathers or Indian like dots?\u201d a boy asks her). Ironically, she first feels the stigma of skin color on trips to her parents\u2019 native country, thanks to not being as \u201cfair\u201d as the rest of her family. As a girl, Mira envisions the \u201clighter, happier, prettier me.\u201d…<\/p>\n

Read the entire review here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Mira lives in New York with her husband, Jed, who is white and Jewish, and their young son, Z., who is dark-skinned like his mother \u2014 a poster for racial harmony that can, in the current climate, feel like a target. Born in New Mexico to parents who immigrated from India in 1968, Mira is simply \u201cbrown,\u201d if ethnically obscure, while growing up (\u201cYou\u2019re Indian like feathers or Indian like dots?\u201d a boy asks her). Ironically, she first feels the stigma of skin color on trips to her parents\u2019 native country, thanks to not being as \u201cfair\u201d as the rest of her family. As a girl, Mira envisions the \u201clighter, happier, prettier me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,16,5,414,125,8,20],"tags":[29736,25468,3873,2640,2327],"class_list":["post-57999","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-asia","category-book-reviews","category-family","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-ed-park","tag-mira-jacob","tag-new-mexico","tag-new-york-times","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57999","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=57999"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57999\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58002,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57999\/revisions\/58002"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=57999"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=57999"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=57999"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}