{"id":6336,"date":"2010-03-27T19:28:31","date_gmt":"2010-03-27T19:28:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=6336"},"modified":"2010-03-27T19:31:44","modified_gmt":"2010-03-27T19:31:44","slug":"the-beauty-of-difference","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=6336","title":{"rendered":"The beauty of difference"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/inthefray.org\/content\/view\/1416\/39\" target=\"_blank\">The beauty of difference<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/inthefray.org\" target=\"_blank\">In The Fray<\/a><br \/>\n2005-12-04<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/inthefray.org\/component\/option,com_comprofiler\/task,userProfile\/user,82\/Itemid,149\/\" target=\"_blank\">Nicole Marie Pezold<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>Zadie Smith\u2019s latest novel, &#8220;On Beauty&#8221;, is many things. Chief among them: an homage to differences.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>For those of mixed heritage \u2014 who straddle more than one race, nationality, faith, class, or whatever else \u2014 uncovering a coherent identity can be a complicated emotional journey.<\/strong> There are multiple, potentially conflicting, avenues and models, and choosing one or melding several is difficult business. This may be part of why <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Zadie_Smith\" target=\"_blank\">Zadie Smith<\/a>\u2014herself the product of an English father and Jamaican mother\u2014returns to this endlessly rich topic in her third novel, <em>On Beauty<\/em>, which was short-listed for the 2005 Man Booker Prize. As with her acclaimed debut novel, <em>White Teeth<\/em>, published when she was a mere 23 years old, and her less stunning second book, The Autograph Man, Smith ambitiously mines the cultural morass of mixed worlds. Now, with her latest work, she paints her most vivid portrait of the challenges and ecstasies of multiculturalism&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Read the entire article <a href=\"http:\/\/inthefray.org\/content\/view\/1416\/39\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The beauty of difference In The Fray 2005-12-04 Nicole Marie Pezold Zadie Smith\u2019s latest novel, &#8220;On Beauty&#8221;, is many things. Chief among them: an homage to differences. For those of mixed heritage \u2014 who straddle more than one race, nationality, faith, class, or whatever else \u2014 uncovering a coherent identity can be a complicated emotional [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,8],"tags":[2664,2663,1344],"class_list":["post-6336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-media-archive","tag-in-the-fray","tag-nicole-marie-pezold","tag-zadie-smith"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6336","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=6336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}