Johnson, the son of an African-American mother and an Irish-American father, has just written Loving Day, a funny, sometimes absurd look at what it means. Mat Johnson On 'Loving Day' And Life As A 'Black Boy' Who Looks White As a biracial child growing up in Philadelphia, writer Mat Johnson identified as. Jun 04, 2015 To say that 'Loving Day' is a book about race is like saying 'Moby-Dick' is a book about whales. Indeed, the subtitle to Mat Johnson's exceptional novel.

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Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title Loving Day Author Mat Johnson Your purchase helps support NPR programming. • • Growing up in Philadelphia, Mat Johnson lived mostly with his mother in a black neighborhood. The son of an African-American mother and an Irish-American father, his skin was so light that he might have passed for white. But being biracial meant only one thing back in the '70s: 'Um, it meant: black,' Johnson says with a laugh. 'There wasn't a lot of ambiguity there. I didn't hear the world biracial or didn't think of myself as biracial.

And when I did hear that, I reacted to it defensively. I thought it was just black people of mixed heritage who were just trying to run away from blackness.' Johnson was born three years after Loving Day — the historic 1967 Supreme Court decision which made interracial marriage legal. His new novel, Loving Day, is a funny, sometimes absurd look at what it means to be mixed race in this country. These days, Johnson has a more nuanced way to describe his racial identity.