{"id":42889,"date":"2015-09-25T02:53:57","date_gmt":"2015-09-25T02:53:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=42889"},"modified":"2016-01-27T03:22:09","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T03:22:09","slug":"identity-and-acceptance-in-danzy-sennas-caucasia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=42889","title":{"rendered":"Identity and Acceptance in Danzy Senna\u2019s Caucasia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncoveredclassics.com\/2015\/09\/16\/identity-and-acceptance-in-danzy-sennas-caucasia\/\" target=\"_blank\"><em><strong>Identity and Acceptance in Danzy Senna\u2019s <\/strong><\/em><strong>Caucasia<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncoveredclassics.com\" target=\"_blank\">Uncovered Classics<\/a><br \/>\n2015-09-16<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/McTelevision\" target=\"_blank\">Melanie McFarland<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cRace is a complete illusion, make-believe,\u201d observes a central character in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.danzysenna.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Danzy Senna\u2019s<\/a> debut novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=8347\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Caucasia<\/em><\/a>. \u201cIt\u2019s a costume. We all wear one.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Or, many. Over the course of our lives, those costumes change as we add and subtract details in reaction to other people\u2019s gaze. To see the idea of race through sugar-coated Coke bottle glasses, racial and cultural differences are to be explored and celebrated. But one can just as accurately say that illusion of race creates unnecessary absurdity in our lives. It challenges our sense of acceptance.<\/p>\n<p>Senna\u2019s <em>Caucasia<\/em> doesn\u2019t quite blast apart the fallacy of race, but it does use our culture\u2019s obsession with it to highlight the ways in which a person creates and morphs her identity&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uncoveredclassics.com\/2015\/09\/16\/identity-and-acceptance-in-danzy-sennas-caucasia\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Identity and Acceptance in Danzy Senna\u2019s Caucasia Uncovered Classics 2015-09-16 Melanie McFarland \u201cRace is a complete illusion, make-believe,\u201d observes a central character in Danzy Senna\u2019s debut novel Caucasia. \u201cIt\u2019s a costume. We all wear one.\u201d Or, many. Over the course of our lives, those costumes change as we add and subtract details in reaction to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,8,6462,20],"tags":[1340,21187,21188],"class_list":["post-42889","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-danzy-senna","tag-melanie-mcfarland","tag-uncovered-classics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42889","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=42889"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42889\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":42891,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42889\/revisions\/42891"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=42889"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=42889"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=42889"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}