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novelist and essayist
Danzy Senna is an American novelist and essayist.
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Danzy Senna's new novel, 'New People,' takes on race In the 1990s, there was a popular idea that people of mixed race would lead the way to the promised land of a post-racial America. Danzy Senna’s new novel takes on that fantasy and the fantasy that race can be easily defined.
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