{"id":15180,"date":"2011-07-29T00:55:10","date_gmt":"2011-07-29T00:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=15180"},"modified":"2017-04-09T22:42:26","modified_gmt":"2017-04-09T22:42:26","slug":"where-did-you-sleep-last-night-a-personal-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=15180","title":{"rendered":"Where Did You Sleep Last Night? A Personal History"},"content":{"rendered":"

Where Did You Sleep Last Night? A Personal History<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Picador (an imprint of Macmillan<\/a>)
\nMay 2009
\n208 pages
\n5 1\/2 x 8 1\/4 inches
\nPaperback ISBN: 978-0-312-42939-3, ISBN10: 0-312-42939-8
\nHardcover ISBN: 978-0-374-28915-7, ISBN10: 0-374-28915-8<\/p>\n

Danzy Senna<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n
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When Danzy Senna\u2019s parents married in 1968, they seemed poised to defy history: two beautiful young American writers from wildly divergent backgrounds\u2014a white woman with a blue-blood<\/a> Bostonian lineage and a black man, the son of a struggling single mother and an unknown father. When their marriage disintegrated eight years later, the violent, traumatic split felt all the more tragic for the hopeful symbolism it had once borne.<\/p>\n

Decades later, Senna looks back not only at her parents\u2019 divorce but at the histories that they had tried so hard to overcome. In the tradition of James McBride’s The Color of Water<\/a><\/em>, Where Did You Sleep Last Night?<\/em> is “a stunningly rendered personal heritage that mirrors the complexities of race, class, and ethnicity in the United States” (Booklist<\/em>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When Danzy Senna\u2019s parents married in 1968, they seemed poised to defy history: two beautiful young American writers from wildly divergent backgrounds\u2014a white woman with a blue-blood Bostonian lineage and a black man, the son of a struggling single mother and an unknown father.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,11,8,17,20],"tags":[1340,514],"class_list":["post-15180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-books","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-usa","tag-danzy-senna","tag-macmillan"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15180","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=15180"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53364,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15180\/revisions\/53364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}