{"id":6577,"date":"2010-04-12T03:49:51","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T03:49:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=6577"},"modified":"2014-12-20T17:36:25","modified_gmt":"2014-12-20T17:36:25","slug":"fading-to-white-fading-away-biracial-bodies-in-michelle-cliffs-abeng-and-danzy-sennas-caucasia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=6577","title":{"rendered":"Fading to white, fading away: biracial bodies in Michelle Cliff’s Abeng and Danzy Senna’s Caucasia"},"content":{"rendered":"

Fading to white, fading away: biracial bodies in Michelle Cliff’s Abeng and Danzy Senna’s Caucasia<\/em><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

African American Review
\n2006-03-22<\/p>\n

Michelle Goldberg<\/strong><\/p>\n

However dissimilar individual bodies are, the compelling idea of common, racially indicative bodily characteristics offers a welcome short-cut into the favored forms of solidarity and connection, even if they are effectively denied by divergent patterns in life chances and everyday experiences.<\/em>\u2014Paul Gilroy, Against Race<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

the invisible in me is counter to the visible.<\/em>\u2014Michelle Cliff, “The Black Woman As Mulatto”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Michelle Cliff’<\/a>s Abeng<\/a><\/em> (1986) and Danzy Senna’s<\/a> Caucasia<\/a><\/em> (1998) typify a recent literary uptrend: a dramatic increase in biracial fiction, memoir, and theory, in biracial discourses of passing, invisibility, and identity. Abeng, which received widespread critical acclaim, and Caucasia<\/em>, the winner of numerous 1998 “Best Book” awards, introduce characters whose mixed race parentage holds true for a growing number of multiracial Americans. Both novels offer biracial characters who resist racial labels while staying especially connected to “blackness.” In Abeng<\/em> and Caucasia<\/em>, respectively, the white bodies of Clare Savage and Birdie Lee misrepresent identities that remain ascribed to, yet not confined by, “blackness.”…<\/p>\n

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Fading to white, fading away: biracial bodies in Michelle Cliff’s Abeng and Danzy Senna’s Caucasia African American Review 2006-03-22 Michelle Goldberg However dissimilar individual bodies are, the compelling idea of common, racially indicative bodily characteristics offers a welcome short-cut into the favored forms of solidarity and connection, even if they are effectively denied by divergent […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,5,1196,8,6462,25],"tags":[2757,2758,2756,1340,2755,2759],"class_list":["post-6577","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-book-reviews","category-literary-criticism","category-media-archive","category-passing-2","category-women","tag-abeng","tag-african-american-review","tag-caucasia","tag-danzy-senna","tag-michelle-cliff","tag-michelle-goldberg"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6577","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=6577"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6577\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6577"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6577"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6577"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}