Tag: Danzy Senna

  • Clearly Invisible Racial Passing and the Color of Cultural Identity by Marcia Alesan Dawkins, and: The Souls of Mixed Folk: Race, Politics and Aesthetics in the New Millennium by Michele Elam (review) Philip Roth Studies Volume 9, Number 2, Fall 2013 pages 99-103 DOI: 10.1353/prs.2013.0024 Donavan L. Ramon Rutgers University Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Clearly Invisible:…

  • Bewildered in Boston HiLobrow 2011-11-12 Joshua Glenn, Co-Founder & Editor-in-Chief Fanny Howe isn’t part of the local literary canon. But her seven novels about interracial love and utopian dreaming offer a rich social history of Boston in the 1960s and ’70s. [This essay first appeared in The Boston Globe’s IDEAS section, on March 7, 2004.]…

  • “The Souls of Mixed Folk” examines representations of mixed race in literature and the arts that redefine new millennial aesthetics and politics. Focusing on black-white mixes, Elam analyzes expressive works—novels, drama, graphic narrative, late-night television, art installations—as artistic rejoinders to the perception that post-Civil Rights politics are bereft and post-Black art is apolitical.

  • Danzy Senna The Southeast Review 2010-05-01 The Southeast Review is published by Florida State University’s Creative Writing Program. Interviewed by Janeen Price Danzy Senna is the author of two novels, a memoir, numerous essays and works of short fiction. Her debut novel, Caucasia, a coming-of-age story, was named the Los Angeles Times Best Book of…

  • I have never had the comfort zone of a given racial identity. My mother is a Bostonian white woman of WASP heritage. My father is a Louisiana black man of mixed African and Mexican heritage. Unlike people who are automatically classified as black or white, I have always been up for debate. I am forever having…

  • The past two decades have seen a growing influx of biracial discourse in fiction, memoir, and theory, and since the 2008 election of Barack Obama to the presidency, debates over whether America has entered a “post-racial” phase have set the media abuzz. In this penetrating and provocative study, Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins adds a new dimension…

  • Tragic No More: Mixed Race Women and the Nexus of Sex and Celebrity University of Massachusetts Press December 2012 176 pages 6 x9; 6 illustrations ISBN (paper): 978-1-55849-985-0 ISBN (cloth): 978-1-55849-984-3 Caroline A. Streeter, Associate Professor of English University of California, Los Angeles A timely exploration of gender and mixed race in American culture This…

  • I continue to identify myself as black. I don’t see it in contradiction with my white and Mexican ancestry. Nor does it negate these other parts of myself. I have come to understand that my multiplicity is inherent in my blackness, not opposed to it. To be black, for me, is to contain all colors.…

  • Literature and Racial Ambiguity Rodopi 2002 320 pages 8.7 x 5.9 x 0.9 inches Hardback ISBN: 978-90-420-1428-2 / 90-420-1428-8 Paperback ISBN: 978-90-420-1418-3 / 90-420-1418-0 Edited by: Teresa Hubel, Associate Professor of English Huron University College in London, Ontario Neil Brooks, Associate Professor of English Huron University College at Western University, London, Ontario Contents Neil Brooks…

  • The Dialogue About “Racial Democracy” Among African-American and Afro-Brazilian Literatures University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill 2008 262 pages Isabel Cristina Rodrigues Ferreira A dissertation submitted to the faculty of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in the Department of…