{"id":42330,"date":"2015-08-20T20:24:21","date_gmt":"2015-08-20T20:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42330"},"modified":"2015-08-20T20:24:21","modified_gmt":"2015-08-20T20:24:21","slug":"author-celeste-ng-on-how-we-can-change-conversations-about-race-in-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42330","title":{"rendered":"Author Celeste Ng On How We Can Change Conversations About Race In America"},"content":{"rendered":"

Author Celeste Ng On How We Can Change Conversations About Race In America<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

ThriveWire<\/a>
\n2015-08-19<\/p>\n

Lacy Cooke<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n

Celeste Ng<\/a> didn\u2019t think she would have a career as a writer until she published her first book, Everything I Never Told You<\/em><\/a>. It was a New York Times<\/em> Notable Book, and was Amazon\u2019s #1 Best Book of 2014. The book was inspired by one startling image.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy husband told me a story about when he was 8 or so. He was at a friend\u2019s house, and his friend pushed his own little sister into a pond. The parents were nearby and they pulled her out and the friend was in big trouble. I kept thinking about what had led this boy to push his sister into a pond and what their relationship would be like after that,\u201d says Celeste. \u201cThe story evolved from there; it changed as I started to write it, as my stories always do, but the image of the girl falling into the water was the first little spark of the story.\u201d<\/p>\n

Everything I Never Told You<\/em> begins with an ending: \u201cLydia is dead.\u201d Lydia, daughter of a white mother and Asian American father, acts as a catalyst to expose her family\u2019s secrets and struggles. Set in the 1970\u2019s, the novel confronts issues of race and interracial marriage. Several aspects of the novel are based on Celeste\u2019s own experiences growing up, as she noticed that the issue of race is more complex than black and white.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere\u2019s a lot of different groups, and a lot of different experiences. In the past year, a lot more people have spoken about their backgrounds and cultures and viewpoints, and I think having those voices out there and getting them heard is the first step in getting people to recognize that they exist,\u201d she says.<\/p>\n

As we hear more experiences, how can we alter our conversations about race? Celeste believes the answer rests not in what we say, but in how we listen…<\/p>\n

Read the entire article here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Author Celeste Ng On How We Can Change Conversations About Race In America ThriveWire 2015-08-19 Lacy Cooke Celeste Ng didn\u2019t think she would have a career as a writer until she published her first book, Everything I Never Told You. It was a New York Times Notable Book, and was Amazon\u2019s #1 Best Book of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,8,20],"tags":[17649,20781,20780],"class_list":["post-42330","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-celeste-ng","tag-lacy-cooke","tag-thrivewire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42330","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=42330"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42330\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42331,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42330\/revisions\/42331"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42330"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42330"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42330"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}