{"id":63567,"date":"2022-08-25T01:03:00","date_gmt":"2022-08-25T01:03:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=63567"},"modified":"2022-08-25T01:05:33","modified_gmt":"2022-08-25T01:05:33","slug":"bright-a-memoir","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=63567","title":{"rendered":"Bright: A Memoir"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarabandebooks.org\/titles-20192039\/bright-kiki-petrosino\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em><strong>Bright: A Memoir<\/strong><\/em><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarabandebooks.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sarabande Books<\/a><br \/>\n2022-08-09<br \/>\n200 pages<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 978-1946448927<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kikipetrosino\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Kiki Petrosino<\/strong><\/a>, Professor of Poetry<br \/>\n<em>University of Virginia<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sarabandebooks.org\/titles-20192039\/bright-kiki-petrosino\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/images.squarespace-cdn.com\/content\/v1\/52cecd6ce4b04d7802cf7426\/1636996962607-FNFBOZ4Q6DIPZK5HSZFW\/bright_aug30A.jpeg?format=2500w\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>Bright: A Memoir<\/em>, the first full-length essay collection from acclaimed poet Kiki Petrosino, is a work of lyric nonfiction, offering glimpses of a life lived between cultural worlds. &#8220;Bright,&#8221; a slang term used to describe light-skinned people of interracial American ancestry, becomes the starting point for an extended meditation on the author&#8217;s upbringing in a mixed Black and Italian American family. Alternating moments of memoir, archival research, close reading and reverie, this work contemplates the enduring, deeply personal legacies of enslavement and racial discrimination in <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/United_States\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">America<\/a>. Situated at the luminous crossroads where public and private histories collide, Bright asks important questions about love, heritage, identity and creativity.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bright: A Memoir, the first full-length essay collection from acclaimed poet Kiki Petrosino, is a work of lyric nonfiction, offering glimpses of a life lived between cultural worlds.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[395,11,8,17,20],"tags":[1989,1988],"class_list":["post-63567","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-autobiography","category-books","category-media-archive","category-monographs","category-usa","tag-kiki-petrosino","tag-sarabande-books"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63567","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=63567"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63567\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63759,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63567\/revisions\/63759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=63567"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=63567"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=63567"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}