{"id":41913,"date":"2015-07-25T01:55:31","date_gmt":"2015-07-25T01:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41913"},"modified":"2015-07-25T01:55:56","modified_gmt":"2015-07-25T01:55:56","slug":"oreo-a-comeback-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=41913","title":{"rendered":"Oreo: A Comeback Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onthemedia.org\/story\/oreo-a-comeback-story\/\" target=\"_blank\">Oreo: A Comeback Story<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onthemedia.org\" target=\"_blank\">On The Media<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.wnyc.org\" target=\"_blank\">WNYC FM<\/a><br \/>\nNew York, New York<br \/>\nFriday, 2015-07-17<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/mythiligrao.com\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mythili Rao<\/strong><\/a>, Host and Producer<\/p>\n<p>Guests: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.matjohnson.info\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Mat Johnson<\/strong><\/a>, <strong>Harryette Mullen<\/strong>, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NewBlackMan\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Anthony Neal<\/a><\/strong> and <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danzysenna.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Danzy Senna<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In 1974, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Fran_Ross\" target=\"_blank\">Fran Ross<\/a> published her first and only novel, &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41697\" target=\"_blank\">Oreo<\/a>.&#8221; The satirical tale of a biracial teenager\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Theseus\" target=\"_blank\">Theseus<\/a>-style quest to find her father was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41058\" target=\"_blank\">almost completely overlooked<\/a> in its era. Now, more than 4 decades later, its re-issue is being met with <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=41903\" target=\"_blank\">critical praise<\/a>. Producer Mythili Rao explores why Ross\u2019s take on racial identity was so ahead of its time.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.onthemedia.org\/widgets\/ondemand_player\/onthemedia\/#file=%2Faudio%2Fxspf%2F518212%2F\" width=\"600\" height=\"130\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Listen to the interview (00:10:58)\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.onthemedia.org\/story\/oreo-a-comeback-story\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Oreo: A Comeback Story On The Media WNYC FM New York, New York Friday, 2015-07-17 Mythili Rao, Host and Producer Guests: Mat Johnson, Harryette Mullen, Mark Anthony Neal and Danzy Senna In 1974, Fran Ross published her first and only novel, &#8220;Oreo.&#8221; The satirical tale of a biracial teenager\u2019s Theseus-style quest to find her father [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2850,3601,1196,8,820,20],"tags":[1340,5235,5237,11168,2355,20506,20507,7523,20508],"class_list":["post-41913","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-judaism","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-religion","category-usa","tag-danzy-senna","tag-fran-ross","tag-harryette-mullen","tag-mark-anthony-neal","tag-mat-johnson","tag-mythili-rao","tag-on-the-media","tag-wnyc","tag-wnyc-fm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41913","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=41913"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41913\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41916,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41913\/revisions\/41916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41913"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41913"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41913"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}