{"id":8345,"date":"2010-08-18T04:26:01","date_gmt":"2010-08-18T04:26:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=8345"},"modified":"2014-01-16T15:49:28","modified_gmt":"2014-01-16T15:49:28","slug":"american-novelist-memoirist-danzy-senna-to-speak-at-university-of-richmond-english-department-2010-2011-writers-series","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=8345","title":{"rendered":"American novelist &#038; memoirist Danzy Senna to speak at University of Richmond English Department 2010-2011 Writers&#8217; Series"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/news.richmond.edu\/news\/article\/as\/2160\/english-department-announces-2010-2011-writers-series.html\" target=\"_blank\">American novelist &amp; memoirist Danzy Senna to speak at University of Richmond English Department 2010-2011 Writers&#8217; Series<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>University of Richmond<br \/>\nRichmond, Virginia<br \/>\nBrown-Alley Room, Weinstein Hall<br \/>\nWednesday, 2011-03-16 19:00 EST (Local Time)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.danzysenna.com\" target=\"_blank\">Danzy Senna<\/a> is the author of two novels and a memoir that focus on issues of race, gender and cultural identity. Her debut novel, \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/?p=8347\" target=\"_blank\">Caucasia<\/a>,\u201d the story of two biracial sisters growing up in racially charged Boston during the 1970s, became an instant national bestseller. It won the <em>Book-of-the-Month Club Stephen Crane Award<\/em> for First Fiction and an <em>Alex Award<\/em> from the American Library Association, was named Best Book of the Year by the <em>Los Angeles Times<\/em> and was a finalist for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award. <strong>Of mixed-race heritage, Senna writes extensively on the experience of being mistaken for white. Her latest work is a collection of short stories.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For more information, click <a href=\"http:\/\/news.richmond.edu\/news\/article\/as\/2160\/english-department-announces-2010-2011-writers-series.html\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>American novelist &amp; memoirist Danzy Senna to speak at University of Richmond English Department 2010-2011 Writers&#8217; Series University of Richmond Richmond, Virginia Brown-Alley Room, Weinstein Hall Wednesday, 2011-03-16 19:00 EST (Local Time) Danzy Senna is the author of two novels and a memoir that focus on issues of race, gender and cultural identity. Her debut [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,8,20],"tags":[1340,3535],"class_list":["post-8345","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-liveevents","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-danzy-senna","tag-university-of-richmond"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8345","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=8345"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8345\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8345"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8345"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8345"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}