![]() ![]() Birdie and Cole are thus forced to choose a racial identity on the basis of their looks alone. This play of opposites is the source of much of the novel’s conflict: Birdie’s parents can’t accept one another as authentic, and this causes the family to break apart. Birdie’s father is black and her mother is white her father is an intellectual who has risen from tough circumstances and is obsessed with his theories about the origins and effects of racism her mother is a blueblood-turned-revolutionary who is more concerned with direct action against racism than in theory Birdie’s sister Cole has dark skin and Birdie has light skin. The book describes the personal story of Birdie Lee, a young girl growing up in Boston in the mid-70s to early 80s. It was a national bestseller and won the Stephen Crane Award for Best New Fiction and the American Library Association’s Alex Award. Caucasia is Danzy Senna’s first novel, which was published in 1998. ![]()
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