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English
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With her strict African American grandmother as her new guardian, Rachel moves to a mostly black community, where her light brown skin, blue eyes, and beauty bring mixed attention her way. Growing up in the 1980s, she learns to swallow her overwhelming grief and confronts her identity as a biracial young woman in a world that wants to see her as either black or white.
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Language
English
Description
Winner of the 2006 Orange Prize for fiction, another bestselling masterwork from the celebrated author of Swing Time and White Teeth
"In this sharp, engaging satire, beauty's only skin-deep, but funny cuts to the bone." —Kirkus Reviews
Having hit bestseller lists from the New York Times to the San Francisco Chronicle, this wise, hilarious novel reminds us why Zadie Smith has rocketed...
"In this sharp, engaging satire, beauty's only skin-deep, but funny cuts to the bone." —Kirkus Reviews
Having hit bestseller lists from the New York Times to the San Francisco Chronicle, this wise, hilarious novel reminds us why Zadie Smith has rocketed...
3) Caucasia
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Language
English
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From the author of New People and Colored Television, the extraordinary national bestseller that launched Danzy Senna’s literary career
“Superbly illustrates the emotional toll that politics and race take … Haunting.” —The New York Times Book Review
Birdie and Cole are the daughters of a black father and a white mother, intellectuals and activists in the Civil Rights Movement in...
“Superbly illustrates the emotional toll that politics and race take … Haunting.” —The New York Times Book Review
Birdie and Cole are the daughters of a black father and a white mother, intellectuals and activists in the Civil Rights Movement in...
Author
Publisher
Magination Press
Pub. Date
[2018]
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Marvelous Maravilloso Me and My Beautiful Family is a story from the point of view of a young interracial child about what color means within the dynamics of race, ethnicity, and culture. This sweet simple story blends the colors of the world and the color of the people in her life and shares the experience of her culture in a complex multicultural world"--
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Language
English
Description
"From debut author Asha Lemmie, a sweeping, heartrending coming-of-age novel about a young woman's quest for acceptance-and the unexpected ally that will change everything-in post-World War II Japan. Kyoto, Japan, 1948. "If a woman knows nothing else, she should know how to be silent. . . . Do not question. Do not fight. Do not resist." Such is eight-year-old Noriko "Nori" Kamiza's first lesson. She will not question why her mother abandoned her with...
6) I am mixed
Author
Publisher
Stranger Kids
Pub. Date
[2012]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged). : color illustrations ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
"Jay and Nia are the children of two worlds, and as they'll discover, they can enjoy the best of both. From Mommy's jazz beats to Daddy's classical piano, we will dance with the twins through a book that explores what it is to be of mixed ancestry, proving that a child is more than the sum of their parents"--Publisher description
7) Mixed me!
Author
Language
English
Description
"Here, finally, is an upbeat, honest look at the experience of a mixed-race child, based on the author's and artist's experiences. Kids love to touch Mike's hair. They sometimes ask him to choose 'sides' between hanging out with black kids or white kids. But Mike just wants to be...Mike! Sure to be a staple in schools and in family libraries, here's a book that's fun to read aloud and to look at, by a dynamic team who knows first-hand that mixed-race...
Author
Publisher
Da Capo Life Long
Pub. Date
2004
Edition
1st Da Capo Lifelong Books pbk. ed.
Physical Desc
xv, 224 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Drawing on psychological research and input from over sixty mulitracial families, 'Does Anybody Else Look Like Me?' addreses your questions and concerns and provides invaluable parenting tools, from the books and toys to use in play with young children to simple scripts to help them gracefully react to insensitive comments at school. (back cover.).
9) Inheritance
Author
Publisher
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
193 p. ; 20 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Booklocker.com, Inc
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
viii, 51 pages : color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
Description
"A lot of people don't always fit in. They may look different, or they may just feel different. And many times, that is a good thing. Being different can push us to think outside the box, to resist peer pressure, to find our own path in life, to discover what only we can become.' -- cover, page [4]
Author
Publisher
Little a
Pub. Date
[2021]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
333 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
South Africa, 1994. Against a backdrop of apartheid and racial violence, Yolanda Petersen returns to the land of her youth at the behest of her mother. While there Yolanda longs to reconnect with her estranged daughter, Ingrid, the product of an illegal mixed-race affair with a white man. But Ingrid is missing, and as Yolanda quickly discovers, she isn't the only woman in Cape Town desperate to protect her own. Ingrid's very existence is proof of...
13) I'm chocolate, you're vanilla: raising healthy Black and biracial children in a race-conscious world
Author
Publisher
Jossey-Bass
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
x, 290 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Three Rivers Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
1st American ed.
Physical Desc
273 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Description
"'Men will want you like they want a glass of rum-- One man will love you. But you won't love him. You will destroy his life. The one you love will break your heart in two.' So says the soothsayer, when predicting young Celia's future. Raised in the tropics of Tobago by an aunt she loves and an uncle she fears, Celia has never felt that she belonged. When her uncle-- a man the neighbors call Allah because he thinks himself mightier than God-- does...
Author
Publisher
HarperFlamingo
Pub. Date
c1998
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
382 p. ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
Lucinda Roy, best-selling author of The Hotel Alleluia, received starred reviews from Publishers Weekly, Booklist, and Library Journal for Lady Moses, her debut novel. Poetic and earthy, it traces the turbulent life of Jacinta Moses, child of a black African writer and a white British actress.
16) America
Publisher
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2009
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (ca. 89 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
America is a biracial boy with a troubled past and what seems to be a very uncertain future. While staying at a treatment center he must learn through the help of his therapist and another patient to confront his past demons in order to begin a new life for himself. Includes a featurette.
Author
Publisher
Bloodaxe Books
Pub. Date
2009
Edition
New ed.
Physical Desc
192 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Lara is a powerful semi-autobiographical novel-in-verse based on Bernardine Evaristo's own childhood and family history. The eponymous Lara is a mixed-race girl raised in Woolwich, a white suburb of London, during the 60s and 70s. Her father, Taiwo, is Nigerian, and her mother, Ellen, is white British. They marry in the 1950s, in spite of fierce opposition from Ellen's family, and quickly produce eight children in ten years. Lara is their fourth...
19) The Icarus girl
Author
Publisher
Nan A. Talese
Pub. Date
2005
Edition
1st ed. in the USA.
Physical Desc
337 p. ; 22 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Super Genius
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
1 volume : chiefly color illustrations ; 28 cm
Language
English
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Patricia "Trish Trash" Nupindju is a talented young hoverderby player on Mars 200 years in the future. Trish wants desperately to go pro because it seems like the only way to escape a future of poverty and hard labor on her family's moisture farm in Candor Chasma. But even if she could make the team, she's too young to get a contract, and her family is going broke faster than her escape velocity.
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