NPR's Steve Inskeep speaks with Sameer Pandya, professor of Asian American Studies about his new book: Members Only, in which he examines Brown space between Black and White.

“The writer Sameer Pandya describes himself this way.

SAMEER PANDYA: I am a middle-aged Indian American man. I teach at a university.

INSKEEP: The main character of his new novel is also a middle-aged Indian American man teaching at a university.

PANDYA: He is a lecturer in anthropology and has arrived, in some ways, at a midpoint in his life where he is thinking about his own kind of identity, thinking about this life he has grown up in in America in kind of what I think of as the brown space between Black and white.”

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