Danzy Senna was born in 1970, just a few years after Loving v. Virginia legalized interracial marriage. “Just merely existing as a family was a radical statement at that time,” she says.
Don't do this again. Don't keep writing about mixed-ness.
This is nothing new, Senna explains:"He's articulating the relationship of America to mixed race people and the hostility, the suspicion and the kind of bewilderment with which we've been faced with, historically.” "Some of my impulse to be a writer comes from that feeling that I want to write myself into existence," Senna says."I want to write the worlds that I've lived in, and the people I've been in the world with, into existence because I never see them."
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