{"id":55108,"date":"2017-11-12T04:12:22","date_gmt":"2017-11-12T04:12:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=55108"},"modified":"2017-11-12T04:12:22","modified_gmt":"2017-11-12T04:12:22","slug":"beige-bubble-bodies-new-people-by-danzy-senna","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=55108","title":{"rendered":"Beige Bubble Bodies: New People by Danzy Senna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/miamirail.org\/reviews\/beige-bubble-bodies-new-people-by-danzy-senna\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Beige Bubble Bodies: <\/strong><\/em><strong>New People<\/strong><em><strong> by Danzy Senna<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/miamirail.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Miami Rail<\/a><br \/>\n2017-10-31<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/romancestudies.duke.edu\/people\/profile\/claudia-milian\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Claudia Milian<\/strong><\/a>, Associate Professor of Spanish &amp; Latin American Studies<br \/>\n<em>Duke University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53907\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New People<\/a><em> by Danzy Senna, Riverhead Books, 240 pp.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danzysenna.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Danzy Senna\u2019s<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=53907\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>New People<\/em><\/a> unfolds the creases of Maria and her fianc\u00e9, Khalil\u2019s flat lives\u2013\u2013exposing sharp, furrowed, details of their beige being in a pre-tech gentrifying <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Brooklyn\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Brooklyn<\/a> bubble. Their barely colored bodies, their contrasts between white and brownish, are a prototype, a palette that is substituted, again and again, by the m\u00e9lange of nationalities and shades that fill in the indistinct Northeastern landscape.<\/p>\n<p>The neutrally named and orphan Maria, a border girl, as it were, whose nebulousness crosses, re-crosses, and double-crosses racial and cultural spectrums and expectations, steers toward the excessive closeness, to an infinite jest, of mixed race America and its vague embodiments. Senna is, on the face of it, in exclusive conversation with black-and-white America. But the novel\u2019s other deviations of grayness and brownness provoke, drift, and pump up the volume on Maria\u2019s out of body experiences as she walks in and out of Latina states&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire review <a href=\"https:\/\/miamirail.org\/reviews\/beige-bubble-bodies-new-people-by-danzy-senna\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Beige Bubble Bodies: New People by Danzy Senna The Miami Rail 2017-10-31 Claudia Milian, Associate Professor of Spanish &amp; Latin American Studies Duke University New People by Danzy Senna, Riverhead Books, 240 pp. Danzy Senna\u2019s New People unfolds the creases of Maria and her fianc\u00e9, Khalil\u2019s flat lives\u2013\u2013exposing sharp, furrowed, details of their beige being [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,14646,8,20],"tags":[9141,1340,27596],"class_list":["post-55108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-latino","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-claudia-milian","tag-danzy-senna","tag-the-miami-rail"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55108","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=55108"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55108\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":55109,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/55108\/revisions\/55109"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=55108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=55108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=55108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}