{"id":37900,"date":"2014-07-23T19:30:53","date_gmt":"2014-07-23T19:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=37900"},"modified":"2014-10-23T19:38:59","modified_gmt":"2014-10-23T19:38:59","slug":"37900","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=37900","title":{"rendered":"Not So Black and White"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.notsoblackandwhite.com\/the-book\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Not So Black and White<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Tree Spirit Publishing<br \/>\n2012<br \/>\n210 pages<br \/>\n9 x 6 x 0.5 inches<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 978-0615568249<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.notsoblackandwhite.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Alexis Wilson<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.notsoblackandwhite.com\/the-book\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.notsoblackandwhite.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/09\/NSBW-cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Mixed marriage, abandonment, a mother\u2019s secret, same sex parents, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Broadway_theatre\" target=\"_blank\">Broadway<\/a>, the Ballet, and <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/HIV\/AIDS\" target=\"_blank\">AIDS<\/a> all make up a multi-colored tapestry of this author\u2019s valiant journey towards a strong and clear passage; leaving the reader uplifted and wanting more.<\/p>\n<p>It is the early 60\u2019s in Europe, when a breathtakingly beautiful interracial couple dance great ballets together and fall passionately in love.\u00a0 She is a Dutch ballerina and he is an African-American international ballet star.\u00a0 They come to America and create a family and a new life.\u00a0 While their daughter Alexis grows up dancing before she can walk, the marriage grows angrily apart.\u00a0 Her father soon becomes one of the few celebrated black choreographers on Broadway, while her mother turns toward a shockingly desperate existence of survival.<\/p>\n<p>At age eleven, Alexis\u2019s world comes crashing.\u00a0 Her mother abandons her and her brother and they are shuttled off to <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/New_York_City\" target=\"_blank\">New York City<\/a> to live with their adoring larger-than-life father, the footlights that beam on the likes of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sammy_Davis,_Jr.\" target=\"_blank\">Sammy Davis Jr.<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Chita_Rivera\" target=\"_blank\">Chita Rivera<\/a>, and the other man in her father\u2019s life.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not So Black and White Tree Spirit Publishing 2012 210 pages 9 x 6 x 0.5 inches Paperback ISBN: 978-0615568249 Alexis Wilson Mixed marriage, abandonment, a mother\u2019s secret, same sex parents, Broadway, the Ballet, and AIDS all make up a multi-colored tapestry of this author\u2019s valiant journey towards a strong and clear passage; leaving the [&hellip;]<\/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":[18244,18245],"class_list":["post-37900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-books","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-usa","tag-alexis-wilson","tag-tree-spirit-publishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37900","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=37900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=37900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=37900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=37900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}