MULTIRACIAL
LITERATURE
Featured
Author:
Danzy Senna
Featured
Books:
Rainier
Spencer:
Spurious
Issues
Spencer
takes up the claims of multiracial activists, subjecting their arguments
to a level of scholarly rigor they have heretofore not been required
to meet.
Featured Website:
Frontline
Famous Families
This
fascinating site inspired by research done by Mario Valdez for the motion
picture, "Secret Daughter" explores some
of history's more interesting examples of mixed racial heritage.
Click any of the links below to order!
Danzy Senna
Caucasia
"Throughout the novel, Senna superbly illustrates the emotional toll
that politics and race take on onegutsy young girl's development as
she makes her way through the parallel limbos betweenand white and between
girl and young woman." -- The New York Times Book Review, Elizabeth
Schmidt
The
Multiracial Experience: Racial Borders as the New Frontier
Shelby Steele
The
Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America
"One of thebooks on race in America to appear in the past 25 years."--
Wall Street Journal
Jean Toomer
Cane
A literary classic written during the time of the Harlem Renaissance,
Cane is a collection of short stories, poems and sketches focusing on
mulattoes and blacks in the South.
Joel Williamson
New
People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States
Midge Wilson & Kathy Russell
Divided
Sisters: Bridging the Gap Between Black Women and White Women
Naomi Zack
American
Mixed Race: The Culture of Microdiversity
Gary B. Mills
The
Forgotten People: Cane River's Creoles of Color
James E. DeVries
Race
and Kinship in a Midwestern Town: The Black Experience in Monroe, Michigan,
1900-1915 (Blacks in the New World)
Michael P. Johnson and James L. Roark
Black
Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South
David Montejano
Anglos
and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986
Eric J. Hooglund
Crossing
the Waters: Arabic-Speaking Immigrants to the United States Before 1940
Ronald Takaki
Strangers
from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans
Robert S. Tilton
Pocahontas:
The Evolution of an American Narrative (Cambridge Studies in American
Literature and Culture, No 83)
William E. Unrau
Mixed-Bloods
and Tribal Dissolution: Charles Curtis and the Quest for Indian Identity
Ramon A. Gutierrez
When
Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power
in New Mexico, 1500-1846
Ira Berlin
Slaves
Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South
Mario T. Garcia
Mexican
Americans: Leadership, Ideology, and Identity, 1930-1960 (Yale Western
Americana Series)
Colin A. Palmer
Slaves
of the White God: Blacks in Mexico, 1570-1650
Marilyn Halter
Between
Race and Ethnicity: Cape Verdean American Immigrants, 1860-1965 (Statue
of Liberty-Ellis Island Centennial)
N. Brent Kennedy with Robyn Vaughan Kennedy
The
Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud People: An Untold Story of Ethnic
Cleansing in America
James H. Dormon
Creoles
of Color of the Gulf South
Francis Russell
The
Shadow of Blooming Grove; Warren G. Harding in His Times
Stephen J. Ochs
Desegregating
the Altar: The Josephites and the Struggle for Black Priests, 1871-1960
James W. Loewen
The
Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and White
Lucy M. Cohen
Chinese
in the Post-Civil War South: A People Without a History
Ian F. Haney Lopez
White
by Law: The Legal Construction of Race (Critical America Series)
Karen Isaksen Leonard
Making
Ethnic Choices: California's Punjabi Mexican Americans
Lisa See
On
Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family
Melissa Fay Greene
The
Temple Bombing
J. David Smith
The
Eugenic Assault on America: Scenes in Red, White, and Black
David Stephen Cohen
The
Ramapo Mountain People
Adele Logan Alexander
Ambiguous
Lives: Free Women of Color in Rural Georgia, 1789-1879
Kent Anderson Leslie
Woman
of Color, Daughter of Privilege: Amanda America Dickson, 1849-1893
Almon Wheeler Lauber
Indian
Slavery in Colonial Times Within the Present Limits of the United States
Gerald M. Sider
Lumbee
Indian Histories; Race, Ethnicity and Indian Identity in the Sourthern
United States
Peter H. Wood
Powhatan's
Mantle: Indians in the Colonial Southeast
J. Leitch Wright, Jr.
The
Only Land They Knew: The Tragic Story of the American Indians in the
Old South
Walter L. Williams
Southeastern
Indians Since the Removal Era
Theda Perdue
Slavery
and the Evolution of Cherokee Society, 1540-1866
Russell Thornton
The
Cherokees: A Population History (Indians of the Southeast)
J. Leitch Wright, Jr.
Creeks
and Seminoles: Destruction and Regeneration of the Muscogulge People
(Indians of the Southeast)
Dennis McAuliffe, Jr.
The
Deaths of Sybil Bolton: An American History
Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr.
The
Life of Okah Tubbee
Donald B. Smith
Long
Lance: The True Story of an Imposter
Jack D. Forbes
Africans
and Native Americans: The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black
Peoples
Sylvia van Kirk
Many
Tender Ties: Women in Fur-Trade Society, 1670-1870
Jacqueline Peterson and Jennifer S.H. Brown
The
New Peoples: Being and Becoming Metis in North America
Mary R. Bullard
Robert
Stafford of Cumberland Island: Growth of a Planter
Christopher Benfey
Degas
in New Orleans: Encounters in the Creole World of Kate Chopin and George
Washington Cable
Christopher Hawes
Poor
Relations: The Making of a Eurasian Community in British India, 1773-1833
