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Cane River by Lalita Tademy. A riveting family saga chronicles four generations of women born into slavery along the Cane River in Louisiana. It is also a tale about the blurring of racial boundaries: great-grandmother Elisabeth notices an unmistakable "bleaching of the line" as first her daughter Suzette, then her granddaughter Philomene, and finally her great-granddaughter Emily choose (or are forcibly persuaded) to bear the illegitimate offspring of the area's white French planters. In many cases these children are loved by their fathers, and their paternity is widely acknowledged. However, neither state law nor local custom allows them to inherit wealth or property, a fact that gives Cane River much of its narrative drive.
Alex Haley's Queen is an account of Alex Haley's family history, published posthumously. Partly of Irish descent, Haley traces his father's family back to its arrival in America in 1797. Queen, Haley's grandmother, was born a slave and lived well into this century.
Light in August by William Faulkner was published in 1932, Light in August is the seventh in the series of William Faulkner's novels set in the fictional Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. The book tells the story of the orphan Joe Christmas, whose mixed black-white heritage condemns him to life as an outsider who is hated by some and pitied by others. Simon McEachern, the puritanical farmer who rears Joe, frequently whips the boy, and Joe leaves home after savagely beating Simon. Joe then wanders for 15 years, eventually settling in with a white woman devoted to aiding blacks, Joanna Burden. But her evangelism is a reminder to Joe of Simon's; still damaged from his upbringing, Joe murders Joanna. Joe flees but a companion reveals his whereabouts and he is killed and castrated.

The Village of Spence Hill: A Multi-Cultural Bedtime Story. This children's book is designed as a "read aloud" bedtime story for ages 3 and beyond. The stories involve four children in a community who interact with each other. It is written on three allegorical levels. The first level is teaching children the caveats of life, e.g. the first chapter, not to run off from your parents, you may get lost in an unfamiliar setting; second chapter, not to play with matches; third chapter, not to cross the streets alone or looking both ways to avoid an accident; and lastly enjoying your friends through a slumber party. The second level deals with multicultural issues. As an adult how do you teach your child about transracially adopted families or interracially blended families when these questions are posed to you? The third level is to mentally stimulate the adult reading this book to the child to look introspectively into his own life and examine what belief system he is instilling into his child.
Atul's Quest by Nader Habibi. It is well known that there is a strong admiration for light skin complexion in many developing countries. This tendency is most visible in South Asia where young people, (both men and women) express a preference for marriage partners with light skin color. Atul's Quest is a satirical story about what happens when this admiration for whiteness is taken to an extreme. Atul is a young student of Indian origin at Yale University. He is so obsessed with whiteness that believes all people of dark skin must engage in intermarriage with whites to pass a lighter skin complexion to their future generations. After being turned down by several professors he finally finds a professor of economics who agrees to help him study the historical precedence and the social consequences of such a recommendation in the context of an independent study course. Realizing the controversial nature of this topic, they report a false topic for Atul’s independent study to the department. Half way into this research project, Atul accidentally discovers a secret society of Indian Professors in East Coast Universities that has already put these beliefs into practice. The discovery leads to twists and turns that add a flavor of adventure and intrigue to the story. Another intriguing aspect of the story is that unknown to Atul, the professor that is supervising his independent study, is secretly pursuing his own research agenda on causal relations between physical beauty and economic development.

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