4. Although the novel Caucasia is categorized as fiction there are many historical events that appear in the book that influence the main character, Birdie. One of the first major situations to be referenced in the book is the Boston busing crisis which occurred in the 1970s. Sandy decides she is no longer going to homeschool Birdie, instead deciding to send her to public school. Though Brown v. Board of Education has ruled that schools be desegregated, “urban to suburban migration contributed to the creation of racially isolated school” (Duff 79). Because of this, students are bused to different schools, creating forced hybridity. Birdie says: “It was late August when my mother drove Cole and me to City Hall to find out where we would be bused
