A reading and conversation with Danzy Senna, author of Where Did You Sleep Last Night?, a personal history of her biracial roots: her white blue-blood mother's family (the Howes of Boston) and her black activist father's family, the Sennas. Ms. Senna is also the author of Caucasia and Symptomatic.

Professor Roslyn Bernstein and Professor Bridgett Davis offer introductory remarks. A Q&A session and reception follows.

This event is sponsored by the Sidney Harman Writer-in-Residence program. The event takes place on December 1, 2009, in the Newman Conference Center, Room 750.