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Summary: Fluid
Review: Caucasia was one of the best books i have ever read, i couldnt put it down even though i had a million midterms to study for. I really identified with Birdie because even though i am a darker skinned black woman i have spent my life in predominately white schools. I have experienced what Biride experienced. I have struggled when people have tried to categorize me and build certain expactations for me based on colour. I thank Senna for writing such a candid and beautifully written book. I thank her for demonstrating how complicated and demented these categories are.... i highlighted the hell out of that book.
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Summary: Great literary work
Review: The book is a good insight to children who come from bi-racial marriages. The author pointed out the political difficulties of raising a bi-racial child in a racist society. I recommend this book for anyone who is involved in an interracial marriage, particulalry black and white. Because blacks and whites are polarized opposites in our society, love is not enough. One must understand and be prepared to deal with the political burden that comes along with interracial involvement.
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Summary: Best Book i have read in awhile
Review: I thought that this book was excellent-- absolutely excellent. I didn't like the father...or his girlfriend, Carmen or the ending, but the book itself was wonderful. i often found myself looking at the author and wondering if it was her own personal story. i also wondered what happened to the mother and i wished that it was specific about what she had done. I thought the mother was wonderful, especially with Jim and the other characters. My only problem with the book was the ending. It was great with the reunion but somehow, I didn't expect the book to lead up to that.
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Summary: yeah, right
Review: I don't care what the reviews say. This book was totally unreadable. The language is so simplistic and contrived. I mean, let's talk about Elemeno. All I can say is that people are so hungry for books that deal with multiracial themes that they will take any piece of trash that is thrown their way and that is precisely what this book is-trash. Get real.
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Summary: This is the best book I've read in ages
Review: I enjoyed reading this book so much I didn't want it to end. The characters are real to me. I have family friends who are somewhat like this. In the Black community we have always known interracial people because, like Cole, we have always accepted interracial relationship openly. Birdee opened my eyes to the experience of "passing". As a dark-skinned African-American woman this is an experience I would never want to have to live through.
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Summary: A telling story of race and skin color in American Society
Review: This book gave me an insight from a child of an mixed marriage in how she viewed herself, and how people treated her, black and white, according to her skin color. When she had to pass herself off as white, she was able to see clearly how some white people viewed blacks when they thought only white people were around. She was able to play this role of being white, but she never forgot her roots and who she really was. This book also revealed the tension and stress of the people involved in the movement in the 70's. The girl's mother in this story, I think was devoted to the movement, the father was a superficial member.
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Summary: I have an autographed copy and you don't
Review: I don't like the title, but everything else about Caucasia makes me feel deep feelings of YES YES YES. It was an ontological affirmation! Birdie has a clear, expressive voice and one of those gritty coming-of-age stories that can only be told honestly from the perspective of a young person. I cried in various parts of the book, which is always a positive sign. Even though Danzy Senna repeats some images, and some parts are a bit redundant, there's so much juicy stuff in here, about women, about race, about feelings and people -- she connected to this reader! Birdie reminds me of Bone from Russell Banks' Rule of the Bone, which is another one of my favorite books. Read it too!
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Summary: Hard to top first novel
Review: Caucasia will be hard to top but I look forward to reading Senna's future work. Through memorable and frequently quirky characters, Caucasia spins an engrossing, tragic tale that speaks to the pain of being bi-racial in America.
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Summary: One of the few accurate accounts of being biracial in Boston
Review: My father bought me this book for a few reasons: 1) He knew Danzy Senna's father back in college 2) I'm biracial (mother white, father black) 3) I'm "coming of age" (I'm fourteen)At first, I wasn't quite sure of Caucasia. I thought it was a too loosely written, but as the plot began to unfold, I became incrediably immersed in the book. Not only is her dipiction being a biracial kid in Boston clear, but it is also incrediably honest and well written. Danzy Senna has attacked a subject few authors are willing to write about, and for that I have the greatest admiration.
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Summary: Quite good, but not finished
Review: Although _Caucasia_ was certainly an impressive book that I would recommend without hesitation, it was far from flawless. The beginning and middle of the book is incredibly compelling and engaging, but the ending disappointed, where so many things were left unresolved--her relationship with her family most notably. What most annoyed me was the portrayal of Berkeley, CA as some multiethnic, proletarian paradise. A total joke! Berkeley is an incredibly expensive city to live in, a city that has good neighborhoods and bad, a city that, despite its ambitions, has plenty of racial tensions. Because Berkeley is presented in opposition to de facto segregated Boston of the 1970s and monochromatic rural New Hampshire of the 1980s and because the book is so much about racial identity, this misportrayal of Berkeley is a major flaw in an otherwise powerful novel. All I can think is that the author has never lived here.
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