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Tripping on the Color Line : Black-White Multiracial Families in a Racially Divided World by Heather M. Dalmage. Interviews with black-white multiracial families, examine the challenges they face and the need for rethinking race in America. The lived reality of race in the ways multiracial families construct their identities and sense of community and politics and the lack of language to describe multiracial experiences, along with the methods of negotiating racial ambiguity in a racially divided society are central themes. By connecting her interviewee's stories to specific issues, such as census categories, transracial adoption, and intermarriage, Dalmage raises the debate to a broad discussion of the idea of race and its impact on social justice. |
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Forbidden Love : The Secret History of Mixed Race America by Gary B. Nash Should there be a mixed-race option on census forms? Readers will find that this history of racially mixed people in the U.S., from colonial times to the present, provides connections and context. In many ways, this is also a history of American racism, a disturbing narrative of resistance to "mestizo America." What will hold teens are the many personal stories that are woven into the political struggle: stirring accounts of "interracial renegades" who defied convention and stood up for love. Some were famous, but most, as Nash points out, have been left out of the history books. |
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Black, White, Just Right! by Marguerite W. Davol and Irene Trivas (Illustrator). Ages 2-5. A mixed-race child celebrates the rich inclusiveness of her life in a joyful picture book. Mama's face is chestnut brown, Papa's face turns pink in the sun, the child's a little dark, a little light, "Just right!" Each double-page spread shows how members of the family are individuals with likes and dislikes, hobbies and habits that move beyond stereotype. |
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Of Many Colors : Portraits of Multiracial Families by Gigi Kaeser (Photographer). Based on an award-winning photo exhibit, this book documents the feelings and experiences of Americans who live in multiracial families. Contradicting stereotypes, members of 39 families have much to say about the most intimate form of integration, familial love, and this love is made visible in the superb photographs by Gigi Kaeser. |
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The Interracial Experience : Growing Up Black/White Racially Mixed in the United States by Ursula M. Brown. The number of black-white mixed marriages increased by 504% in the last 25 years. By gathering hard data as well as a series of intensely personal and revealing vignettes, Dr. Brown offers a rare glimpse into the lives, struggles, frustration and joys of mixed race people. She investigates psychosocial issues unique to mixed race children. Also, experiences that influenced their adjustment in a country that has subjected them to racist abuses from the white as well as black side of the racial divide and has shoehorned them into a racial category that denies half of their physiological and psychological existence are explored. |
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Destined to Witness : Growing Up Black in Nazi Germany by Hans J. Massaquoi. Massaquoi, a man of mixed racial heritage, survived 12 years of Nazi terror in Germany during World War II. The son of a German mother and a Liberian father, he grew up in a country that became progressively obsessed with racial purity, where Massaquoi was unable to escape racist taunts and hostilities. He recalls his early, naive acceptance and even admiration of Hitler, even in the face of creeping racial animosities, primarily aimed at Jews but slowly encompassing other non-Aryan people as well. By adolescence, embittered by his perpetual outsider status, Massaquoi had come to grips with the reality of his situation and that of his mother. Through sports figures Joe Louis and Jesse Owens, Massaquoi attached his racial identity to that of black Americans and became obsessed with coming to the U.S. After the war, he settled temporarily in Liberia with his father's family before journeying to the U.S. and eventually becoming a reporter with Ebony magazine. Massaquoi's background and experiences provide incredible context to this personal story of overcoming racism |
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