{"id":13775,"date":"2011-05-13T02:24:52","date_gmt":"2011-05-13T02:24:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=13775"},"modified":"2014-01-16T15:45:10","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T15:45:10","slug":"stories-of-biracial-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=13775","title":{"rendered":"Stories of Biracial America"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/08\/books\/review\/book-review-you-are-free-by-danzy-senna.html?_r=1&amp;ref=bookreviews\" target=\"_blank\">Stories of Biracial America<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\" target=\"_blank\">The New York Times<\/a><br \/>\n2011-05-06<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.missourireview.org\/content\/dynamic\/author_detail.php?author_id=1420\" target=\"_blank\">Polly Rosenwaike<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Barack_Obama\" target=\"_blank\">Barack Obama<\/a> makes two appearances in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danzysenna.com\" target=\"_blank\">Danzy Senna\u2019s<\/a> first story collection, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=13773\" target=\"_blank\">You Are Free<\/a>\u201d: in a photograph on an administrator\u2019s desk at an exclusive preschool, and on the bumper sticker of a <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/BMW\" target=\"_blank\">BMW<\/a>. Seeing that BMW, the narrator of the story \u201cReplacement Theory\u201d observes, \u201cThe election had come and gone, the blackish man was in charge, and the slogan on the bumper\u2014<em>Yes We Can<\/em>\u2014already had the feeling of some dusty, long-gone revolution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If Obama is \u201cblackish,\u201d Senna\u2019s central characters are usually whitish, the genes of a light-skinned parent predominating over those of the dark-skinned one. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Langston_Hughes\" target=\"_blank\">Langston Hughes\u2019s<\/a> famous poem \u201cI, Too\u201d begins: \u201cI, too, sing America. \/ I am the darker brother.\u201d In Senna\u2019s stories, as in her novels (\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=8347\" target=\"_blank\">Caucasia<\/a>\u201d and \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=12544\" target=\"_blank\">Symptomatic<\/a>\u201d) and her memoir (\u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=15180\" target=\"_blank\">Where Did You Sleep Last Night?<\/a>\u201d), she explores what it\u2019s like to be the lighter sister&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/08\/books\/review\/book-review-you-are-free-by-danzy-senna.html?_r=1&amp;ref=bookreviews\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stories of Biracial America The New York Times 2011-05-06 Polly Rosenwaike Barack Obama makes two appearances in Danzy Senna\u2019s first story collection, \u201cYou Are Free\u201d: in a photograph on an administrator\u2019s desk at an exclusive preschool, and on the bumper sticker of a BMW. Seeing that BMW, the narrator of the story \u201cReplacement Theory\u201d observes, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,63,5],"tags":[1340,2640,6316,2327],"class_list":["post-13775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-barack-obama","category-book-reviews","tag-danzy-senna","tag-new-york-times","tag-polly-rosenwaike","tag-the-new-york-times"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}