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This is fresh air.
I am Terry Gross.
Remember when Donald Trump accused Kamala Harris of suddenly turning black and he said, so?
I dont know, is she indian or is she black?
The confusion and suspicion biracial people are confronted with is a theme of the novels and the memoir by my guest Danzi Senna.
She also writes about what it means to be biracial and the meaning of race itself.
Her mother, who is white, is from an eminent Boston family.
Her father, who is black, grew up in an orphanage in a small Alabama town.
Her parents married in 1968, the year the Supreme Court overturned all existing state laws that banned in interracial marriage.
She was born in 1970 and grew up during the black power movement.
Her new novel, colored television, is both heartfelt and satirical.
Its about a writer whos devastated when the novel shes been working on for ten years, a novel about how the meaning of being biracial has changed over generations, is rejected by her publisher.
If she cant publish that, she cant get tenure at the university where she teaches, which means not having enough money to get by.
Her husband is an artist whose work doesn't sell.
They have two children.
She's discovering that some of her son's traits that she thought made him unique and interesting may be signs that he's on the autism spectrum.
The family lives in LA, which they can't afford, so they've been living in an expensive home of a friend, a screenwriter, while he's working abroad.