Beyond Ethnic Loneliness: The Pain of Marginalization and the Path to Belonging

Verma, Prasanta

ISBN 10: 151400741X / ISBN 13: 9781514007419

Published by IVP, 2024

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Beyond Ethnic Loneliness: The Pain of Marginalization and the Path to Belonging
• Publisher: IVP
• Publication Date: 2024
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 151400741X
• ISBN 13: 9781514007419
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: good

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Synopsis

Foreword INDIES Book of the Year Award Finalist

"So what are you? Go back where you belong!"

Majority white American culture has historically marginalized people of color, who at times feel invisible and alienated and at other times are traumatized by oppression and public discrimination. This reality leads to a particular kind of aloneness: ethnic and racial loneliness.

An Indian American immigrant who grew up in white Southern culture, Prasanta Verma names and sheds light on the realities of ethnic loneliness. She unpacks the exhausting effects of cultural isolation, the dynamics of marginalization, and the weight of being other. In the midst of disconnection and erasure, she points to the longing to belong, the need to share our stories, and the hope of finding safe friendships and community. Our places of exile can become places where we find belonging―to ourselves, to others, and to God.

About the Author

Prasanta Verma (MBA, MPH) was born under an Asian sun, raised in the Appalachian foothills in the South, and now resides in the Upper Midwest. Her essays and poetry have been published in Sojourners, Propel Women, (in)courage, Inheritance Magazine, the Indianapolis Review, Barren Magazine, and the Mudroom blog. She served as a speech and debate coach for over ten years. When she's not writing, speaking, or working, she's drinking chai, walking, or reading. Prasanta lives with her family in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.