{"id":9640,"date":"2010-10-19T02:55:31","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T02:55:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=9640"},"modified":"2018-11-13T05:26:17","modified_gmt":"2018-11-13T05:26:17","slug":"the-professor%e2%80%99s-daughter-a-novel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=9640","title":{"rendered":"The Professor\u2019s Daughter: A Novel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/theprofessorsdaughter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Professor\u2019s Daughter: A Novel<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/picador.aspx\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Picador<\/a> an Imprint of Macmillan<br \/>\nJanuary 2006<br \/>\n288 pages<br \/>\n5 1\/2 x 8 1\/4 inches<br \/>\nPaperback ISBN: 978-0-312-42568-5, ISBN10: 0-312-42568-6<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www1.ccny.cuny.edu\/prospective\/humanities\/english\/faculty\/eraboteau.cfm\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Emily Raboteau<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of English<br \/>\n<em>The City College of New York<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/us.macmillan.com\/theprofessorsdaughter\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/jacketupload.macmillanusa.com\/jackets\/high_res\/jpgs\/9780312425685.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMy father is black and my mother is white and my brother is a vegetable.\u201d When Emma Boudreaux\u2019s older brother winds up in a coma after a freak accident, she loses her compass: only Bernie was able to navigate\u2014if not always diplomatically\u2014the terrain of their biracial identity. And although her father and brother are bound by a haunting past that Emma slowly uncovers, she sees that she might just escape.<\/p>\n<p>In exhilarating prose, <em>The Professor\u2019s Daughter<\/em> traces the borderlands of race and family, contested territory that gives rise to rage, confusion, madness, and invisibility. This astonishingly original voice surges with energy and purpose.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u201cMy father is black and my mother is white and my brother is a vegetable.\u201d When Emma Boudreaux\u2019s older brother winds up in a coma after a freak accident, she loses her compass: only Bernie was able to navigate\u2014if not always diplomatically\u2014the terrain of their biracial identity. And although her father and brother are bound by a haunting past that Emma slowly uncovers, she sees that she might just escape.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,8,15,20],"tags":[2358,2918],"class_list":["post-9640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-media-archive","category-novels","category-usa","tag-emily-raboteau","tag-picador"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9640","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=9640"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9640\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":57039,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9640\/revisions\/57039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}