{"id":54853,"date":"2017-08-26T22:50:45","date_gmt":"2017-08-26T22:50:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=54853"},"modified":"2017-08-26T22:50:45","modified_gmt":"2017-08-26T22:50:45","slug":"danzy-senna-new-people","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=54853","title":{"rendered":"Danzy Senna: New People"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcrw.com\/news-culture\/shows\/bookworm\/danzy-senna-new-people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Danzy Senna: New People<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcrw.com\/news-culture\/shows\/bookworm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Bookworm<\/a><br \/>\nKCRW FM<br \/>\nSanta Monica, California<br \/>\n2017-08-24<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcrw.com\/news-culture\/shows\/bookworm\/danzy-senna-new-people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.kcrw.com\/news-culture\/shows\/bookworm\/danzy-senna-new-people\/@@images\/rectangular_image\/feature\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<small>Photo by Christopher Ho<\/small><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danzysenna.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Danzy Senna<\/a> relishes kicking political correctness to the curb. She believes that irony and humor are more effective than earnestness when writing about race and gender. In her novel <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53907\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>New People<\/em><\/a>, Senna takes on both the comedy and seriousness of race. Her mixed-race trickster heroine plays what she thinks is a funny prank on her mixed-race boyfriend \u2013 a racist prank that mushrooms into a full-scale drama on their 90s Stanford University campus\u2026 and that is just the beginning.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the entire episode (00:28:29) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.kcrw.com\/news-culture\/shows\/bookworm\/danzy-senna-new-people\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In her novel New People, Danzy Senna relishes kicking political correctness to the curb. She believes that irony and humor are more effective than earnestness when writing about race and gender.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2850,13743,8,6462,20],"tags":[1340,19884,27478],"class_list":["post-54853","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-interviews","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-usa","tag-danzy-senna","tag-kcrw","tag-kcrw-fm"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54853","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=54853"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54853\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54854,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54853\/revisions\/54854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54853"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54853"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54853"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}