{"id":58769,"date":"2019-08-27T01:53:24","date_gmt":"2019-08-27T01:53:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=58769"},"modified":"2019-08-27T01:53:24","modified_gmt":"2019-08-27T01:53:24","slug":"black-card-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=58769","title":{"rendered":"Black Card: A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"

Black Card: A Novel<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n

Catapult<\/a>
\n2019-08-13
\n272 pages
\n5.8 x 1.2 x 8.3 inches
\nHardcover ISBN: 9781948226264<\/p>\n

Chris L. Terry<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

\"Black<\/a><\/p>\n

Chris L. Terry\u2019s Black Card<\/em> is an uncompromising examination of American identity. In an effort to be \u201cblack enough,\u201d a mixed-race punk rock musician indulges his own stereotypical views of African American life by doing what his white bandmates call \u201cblack stuff.\u201d After remaining silent during a racist incident, the unnamed narrator has his Black Card<\/a> revoked by Lucius, his guide through Richmond, Virginia<\/a>, where Confederate flags<\/a> and memorials are a part of everyday life.<\/p>\n

Determined to win back his Black Card, the narrator sings rap songs at an all-white country music karaoke<\/a> night, absorbs black pop culture, and attempts to date his black coworker Mona, who is attacked one night. The narrator becomes the prime suspect and earns the attention of John Donahue, a local police officer with a grudge dating back to high school. Forced to face his past, his relationships with his black father and white mother, and the real consequences and dangers of being black in America, the narrator must choose who he is before the world decides for him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In an effort to be \u201cblack enough,\u201d a mixed-race punk rock musician indulges his own stereotypical views of African American life by doing what his white bandmates call \u201cblack stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,125,8,15,20,693],"tags":[29404,30175,11081,8406],"class_list":["post-58769","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-usa","category-virginia","tag-catapult","tag-catapult-books","tag-chris-l-terry","tag-richmond"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58769","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=58769"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58769\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":58771,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/58769\/revisions\/58771"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=58769"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=58769"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=58769"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}