{"id":49495,"date":"2016-11-19T21:12:16","date_gmt":"2016-11-19T21:12:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=49495"},"modified":"2016-11-19T22:50:45","modified_gmt":"2016-11-19T22:50:45","slug":"swing-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=49495","title":{"rendered":"Swing Time"},"content":{"rendered":"

Swing Time<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Penguin Press<\/a>
\n2016-11-15
\n464 pages
\nHardcover ISBN: 978-1594203985
\nPaperback ISBN: 978-1524723194<\/p>\n

Zadie Smith<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

<\/a><\/p>\n

Two brown girls dream of being dancers\u2014but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, what constitutes a tribe, or makes a person truly free. It\u2019s a close but complicated childhood friendship that ends abruptly in their early twenties, never to be revisited, but never quite forgotten, either.<\/p>\n

Tracey makes it to the chorus line but struggles with adult life, while her friend leaves the old neighborhood behind, traveling the world as an assistant to a famous singer, Aimee, observing close up how the one percent live.<\/p>\n

But when Aimee develops grand philanthropic ambitions, the story moves from London<\/a> to West Africa<\/a>, where diaspora tourists travel back in time to find their roots, young men risk their lives to escape into a different future, the women dance just like Tracey\u2014the same twists, the same shakes\u2014and the origins of a profound inequality are not a matter of distant history but a present dance to the music of time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Swing Time Penguin Press 2016-11-15 464 pages Hardcover ISBN: 978-1594203985 Paperback ISBN: 978-1524723194 Zadie Smith Two brown girls dream of being dancers\u2014but only one, Tracey, has talent. The other has ideas: about rhythm and time, about black bodies and black music, what constitutes a tribe, or makes a person truly free. It\u2019s a close but […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,15],"tags":[6202,1344],"class_list":["post-49495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media-archive","category-novels","tag-penguin-press","tag-zadie-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49495","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=49495"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49495\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50058,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49495\/revisions\/50058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=49495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=49495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=49495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}