Colored Television by Danzy Senna review race as performance
Briefly

"Early in Colored Television, 46-year-old Jane Gibson imagines her past self peering through the window of the home she lives in. Brooklyn Jane would admire this architecturally interesting house on the hills overlooking Los Angeles, she thinks, and see within it an idyllic scene of family life featuring Jane's painter husband Lenny..."
"The vision is warm, sophisticated, a Black bohemian version of the American dream. In this sly novel about dreams, ambition and race as performance, Jane's fantasy is telling..."
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