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In the final pages of
Southbound, Anjali Enjetiâs collection of essays on identity, race and Southern politics, the author poses one simple but thorny question that looms like a ghost over much of the work: âWho am I?â
For Enjeti, a Southern writer who inherited an ethnic and racial heritage that spans three continents, the answer is not so simple. âI am a woman of color,â she writes. âI am brown. Mixed race. Indian, Austrian, Puerto Rican. I represent multiple souths â South Asia, southern India, and the Deep South in the United States. I am an immigrantâs daughter.â