Who is the main character in the poetry collection, Native Guard?

The unnamed speaker in the majority of the poems throughout the collection shares many biographical details with the author of the book. Much like Trethewey, the speaker is a biracial child born in Mississippi to a white father and a black mother. As a child, she is forced to deal with her status as biracial in a setting notorious for its bigotry and highly volatile racial politics. She is subjected to racism in many different forms, which causes her to feel a sense of displacement and otherness in her own native state.