Danzy Senna - Wikipedia
WEBDanzy Senna was born and raised in Boston, Massachusetts, the middle of three children. [6] Her parents are the poet and novelist Fanny Howe , who is white, and the editor Carl Senna, who is Black .
Her Father's People | STANFORD magazine
WEBSenna has more, not less, extended family than she did before, and feels better armed against the forces of racial oppression and obsession that would undermine her sons. Learning details about her father’s black lineage has grounded Senna.
In Interracial Family's Story, A Nation's Past : NPR
WEBJun 19, 2009 · Danzy Senna's poet mother was a Boston Brahmin, her father the son of a black piano player and a Mexican boxer. Her memoir, in which she examines her family history, is part detective...
Bringing Down Bébé: How One Mother Mistakenly Hoped a Year in ... - Vogue
WEBNov 11, 2013 · Inspired by a spate of books extolling the French way, Danzy Senna hoped a year in Paris would transform her all-American sons into model citizens. Au contraire.
'Colored Television' author Danzy Senna has to write herself into ... - NPR
WEBSep 3, 2024 · When Donald Trump attacked Kamala Harris’ biracial identity earlier this summer, writer Danzy Senna wasn’t surprised.
Danzy Senna Is Amused by Your Mixed Feelings | The New Yorker
WEBSep 3, 2024 · “Butterscotch dream children,” as she wrote in her novel “New People” (2017), ran amok in advertisements, and demographic change inspired visions of “mud-colored” youths who’d ...
Identity, mistaken and otherwise - Los Angeles Times
WEBJun 21, 2009 · Yet, like lots of children of divorce, Senna loves her father. But she also knows very little about him. She has a kind of epiphany about that fact one day in Cambridge, Mass., as she looks up...
Caucasia by Danzy Senna - Goodreads
WEBFeb 2, 1998 · In Caucasia—Danzy Senna's extraordinary debut novel and national bestseller—Birdie and Cole are the daughters of a black father and a white mother, intellectuals and activists in the Civil Rights Movement in 1970s Boston.
Danzy Senna Writes Herself (And Other Mixed-Race People) Into ... - NPR
WEBSep 3, 2024 · Novelist Danzy Senna spoke with Terry Gross about racial identity, growing up with a Black father and white mother in an era when "mixed-race" wasn't a thing.
Where Did You Sleep Last Night? - amazon.com
WEBMar 30, 2010 · When Danzy Senna's parents got married in 1968, they seemed poised to defy history. They were two brilliant young American writers from wildly divergent backgrounds―a white woman with a blue-blood Bostonian lineage and a black man, the son of a struggling single mother and an unknown father.