{"id":58809,"date":"2019-12-02T01:17:00","date_gmt":"2019-12-02T01:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58809"},"modified":"2019-12-02T01:20:04","modified_gmt":"2019-12-02T01:20:04","slug":"the-color-of-love-a-story-of-a-mixed-race-jewish-girl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58809","title":{"rendered":"The Color of Love: A Story of a Mixed-Race Jewish Girl"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Color of Love: A Story of a Mixed-Race Jewish Girl<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Agate Bolden<\/a> (an imprint of Agate Publishing<\/a>)
\n2019-11-12
\n256 pages
\n5.25 x 0.5 x 8 inches
\nPaperback ISBN-13: 9781572842755<\/p>\n

Marra B. Gad<\/strong><\/a>, Inde\u00adpen\u00addent Film and Tele\u00advi\u00adsion Producer
\nLos Angeles, California<\/em><\/p>\n

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An unforgettable memoir about a mixed-race Jewish woman who, after fifteen years of estrangement from her racist great-aunt, helps bring her home when Alzheimer\u2019s<\/a> strikes<\/em><\/p>\n

In 1970, three-day-old Marra B. Gad was adopted by a white Jewish family in Chicago<\/a>. For her parents, it was love at first sight\u2014but they quickly realized the world wasn\u2019t ready for a family like theirs.<\/p>\n

Marra\u2019s biological mother was unwed, white, and Jewish, and her biological father was black. While still a child, Marra came to realize that she was \u201ca mixed-race, Jewish unicorn<\/a>.\u201d In black spaces, she was not \u201cblack enough\u201d or told that it was OK to be Christian or Muslim, but not Jewish. In Jewish spaces, she was mistaken for the help, asked to leave, or worse. Even in her own extended family, racism bubbled to the surface.<\/p>\n

Marra\u2019s family cut out those relatives who could not tolerate the color of her skin\u2014including her once beloved, glamorous, worldly Great-Aunt<\/a> Nette. After they had been estranged for fifteen years, Marra discovers that Nette has Alzheimer\u2019s<\/a>, and that only she is in a position to get Nette back to the only family she has left. Instead of revenge, Marra chooses love, and watches as the disease erases her aunt\u2019s racism, making space for a relationship that was never possible before.<\/p>\n

The Color of Love<\/em> explores the idea of yerusha<\/em>, which means “inheritance” in Yiddish<\/a>. At turns heart-wrenching and heartwarming, this is a story about what you inherit from your family\u2014identity, disease, melanin, hate, and most powerful of all, love. With honesty, insight, and warmth, Marra B. Gad has written an inspirational, moving chronicle proving that when all else is stripped away, love is where we return, and love is always our greatest inheritance.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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