Danzy Senna, Author Who Explores Multiracial Experience

Multiracial author Danzy Senna is the daughter of African-American scholar Carl Senna and white author Fanny Howe. Her fiction frequently explores the experience of being biracial, the ambiguity of race, and the absurdity of defining race.

Click here to read an interview last year with the Times Union's Elizabeth Floyd Mair:

"In the liberal white world, what's sometimes hardest for me is the earnestness around race. It doesn't have that quality of irony and humor that I feel when I'm in a group of people who are of color--that ease of humor."

Senna will read today with former U.S. Poet Laureate Charles Simic, Tuesday, July 17th, 8PM, Davis Audiorium, Palamountain Hall, 815 North Broadway, Saratoga.

 

All events in the series are free and open to the general public.