{"id":5595,"date":"2010-03-03T00:30:35","date_gmt":"2010-03-03T00:30:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=5595"},"modified":"2013-07-06T13:12:08","modified_gmt":"2013-07-06T13:12:08","slug":"reimagining-the-tragic-mulatto-interview-with-author-heidi-w-durrow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=5595","title":{"rendered":"Reimagining The &#8216;Tragic Mulatto&#8217; [Interview with Author Heidi W. Durrow]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=124244813\" target=\"_blank\">Reimagining The &#8216;Tragic Mulatto&#8217;\u00a0[Interview with Author Heidi W. Durrow]<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=2\" target=\"_blank\">All Things Considered<\/a><\/em><br \/>\nNational Public Radio<br \/>\n2010-03-02<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/\" target=\"_blank\">Michele Norris<\/a><\/strong>, Host<br \/>\n<em>All Things Considered<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=2\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/media.npr.org\/chrome\/news\/nprlogo_138x46.gif\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Like so many children of mixed marriages, the author <a href=\"http:\/\/www.heidiwdurrow.com\" target=\"_blank\">Heidi Durrow<\/a> has often felt like she&#8217;s had to straddle two worlds.<\/p>\n<p>She is the daughter of a black serviceman and a white Danish mother.<\/p>\n<p>Her own personal search for identity inspired her debut novel, <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=577\" target=\"_blank\">The Girl Who Fell From The Sky<\/a>.<\/em> The story revolves around a girl who moves across the country to live with her grandmother after surviving a family tragedy.<\/p>\n<p>The book has received breathless critical acclaim, and it was awarded the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bellwetherprize.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Bellwether Prize<\/a> for fiction that addresses issues of social justice&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire story and an excerpt from the book\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/story\/story.php?storyId=124244813\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.\u00a0 Listen to the interview <a href=\"http:\/\/www.npr.org\/templates\/player\/mediaPlayer.html?action=1&amp;t=1&amp;islist=false&amp;id=124244813&amp;m=124251063\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reimagining The &#8216;Tragic Mulatto&#8217;\u00a0[Interview with Author Heidi W. Durrow] All Things Considered National Public Radio 2010-03-02 Michele Norris, Host All Things Considered Like so many children of mixed marriages, the author Heidi Durrow has often felt like she&#8217;s had to straddle two worlds. She is the daughter of a black serviceman and a white Danish [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2850,13,8,394,20,25],"tags":[2342,65,64,2344,2309],"class_list":["post-5595","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-audio","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-socialscience","category-usa","category-women","tag-all-things-considered","tag-heidi-durrow","tag-heidi-w-durrow","tag-michele-norris","tag-national-public-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595","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=5595"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5595\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5595"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5595"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5595"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}