Part Asian, 100% Hapa33 reviews Kip Fulbeck Chronicle Books, 2006 Check: Other + Lovely book, made this hybrid proud + Good coffee table book + "Other" + Simple, but easy to understand.             The Complete Fiction of Nella Larsen: Passing, Quicksand, and The Stories3 reviews Nella Larsen Anchor, 2001 Larsen speaks to those who've felt they never really fit in + Complete fiction-- all too slight for the quality of her voice. + Passing was a great read !!!!! This volume contains two novellas, Passing and Quicksand. I would recommend reading the introduction afterwards because it might spoil the stories. The two female protagonists in her stories are loosely autobiographical. Larson's mother was from Denmark and her father was Caribbean or ...             Our Kind of People: Inside America's Black Upper Class255 reviews Lawrence Otis Graham Harper Perennial, 2000 Everyone on here tryin to slam this book needs to sit down somewhere! + racial perspective + Stimulates Discussion + I think people are missing part of the point..             Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance249 reviews Barack Obama Three Rivers Press, 2004 A Good Quick Read... + Man of Values + Thanks for this incitation to dream + Important Read for All Americans             Caucasia: A Novel121 reviews Danzy Senna Riverhead Trade, 1999 Identity, race and family + biracialism + Loved It !!!!!!! + Amazing, Highly Lyrical, Beautifully Picturesque Novel + Enjoyed it             Captivity (Pitt Poetry Series) Toi Derricotte University of Pittsburgh Press, 1989             Stage Left Miriam, D. Dufer Miriam D. Dufer, 2007 Stage Left imbues elements of ballet and music as inspiration, content, and form to explore the rhythms in words and symbolism. Like the illusion of flight in ballet, Stage Left defies the gravitational pull of intensely solemn themes of intolerance, racial identity, miscegenation, and coming of age while working in the constraints of human perception. Divided into the 3 sections, Prelude, ...             Mixed Race America and the Law: A Reader (Critical America Series)1 review Kevin Johnson NYU Press, 2003 A Path-Breaking Book! Racial mixture is the future of the United States. Anyone interested in how the law has treated the issue should look at this anthology of readings on this important subject.             Race after Hitler: Black Occupation Children in Postwar Germany and America Heide Fehrenbach Princeton University Press, 2005 When American victors entered Germany in the spring of 1945, they came armed not only with a commitment to democracy but also to Jim Crow practices. Race after Hitler tells the story of how troubled race relations among American occupation soldiers, and black-white mixing within Germany, unexpectedly shaped German notions of race after 1945. Biracial occupation children became objects of ...             The Pigment of Your Imagination: Mixed Race in a Global Society2 reviews Joy M. Zarembka Madera Press, 2007 Race truly is a social construct + The Challenge for Interracial Families I enjoyed this book. I read (& speak) a lot on race, transracial adoption, and Biracial identity. What I found interesting about this book is how as she moved from country to country (& sometimes within a country) her race changed. Also the rules of race- such as the "one drop rule"- changed. The ...             Natural Birth2 reviews Toi Derricotte Firebrand Books, 2000 The Unnaturalness of the Birthing Process + Poetry that shares the real experience I missed reading the original edition of Toi Derricotte's Natural Birth Poems (1983), which is out of print. However, Natural Birth-the reissuance of the poems, along with a powerful introduction-adds new insights to the conversation about the birthing process. Having recently read Derricotte's ...             Tender (Pitt Poetry Series)2 reviews Toi Derricotte University of Pittsburgh Press, 1997 a wonderful book + Moving and unforgettable poems. Bravo to Toi Derricotte on this collection of poems. No other poet I can think of writes so beautifully and movingly on the subject of race. There's a lot of pain beneath the surface of racial relations, but Toi Derricote's words make something of beauty from that pain. Highly recommended.             Legal History of the Color Line: The Rise And Triumph of the One-drop Rule Frank W. Sweet Backintyme, 2005 The Rise and Triumph of the One-Drop Rule One-Third of White Americans Have Recent Black Admixture. Every Year, 35,000 Black-Born Youngsters Redefine Themselves as White. Genealogists were the first to learn that America's color line leaks. Black researchers often find White ancestry. White genealogists routinely uncover Black ancestry. Molecular anthropologists now confirm Afro-European ...             Check All That Apply: Finding Wholeness as a Multiracial Person8 reviews Sundee Frazier InterVarsity Press, 2002 Check All That Apply + Much needed for the multiracial community + It Spoke to Me + Straight talk that is honest & insightful             Imitation of Life4 reviews Fannie Hurst Duke University Press, 2004 LIMITATION OF LIFE... + Oldie but goodie + RESPONSE TO "Suds from a bygone era". This is an oldie but a goodie, and although it may seem somewhat anachronistic, in fact, almost embarrassingly and offensively so, it is well worth reading. A best selling novel when it was first released in 1933, the reader should keep in mind that much of what is in the book would today be ...             The Heart of Whiteness: Confronting Race, Racism and White Privilege18 reviews Robert Jensen City Lights Publishers, 2005 Very Good Exploration of Racism + Thought-provoking & well worth reading + The truth hurts. The author does a very good job of bringing to the attention of the reader one of the major sources of racism: white privilege. While it is understandably rejected by those who benefit from racist practices and beliefs, the book does provoke people (who are open about the issue) to reconsider ...             The Black Notebooks: An Interior Journey9 reviews Toi Derricote W. W. Norton & Company, 1999 Who you are will shape this book for you + Dark, wrenching story of woman tortured by her color + A complex and nuanced memoir. + Powerful             The Marrow of Tradition (Dover Value Editions)1 review Charles W. Chesnutt Dover Publications, 2003 Good value Watch Video Here: http://www.amazon.com/review/R2LSTCUACZD5UJ I usually only buy books for school so I don't require them to be excessively durable or aesthetically pleasing. This edition is elegantly designed with a soft cover and is worth the price. The cover bruises a bit easily so a little ...             Raising Biracial Children3 reviews Tracey A. Laszloffy AltaMira Press, 2005 Enlightening reading + Great professional resource! This is a book that you'll keep by your bedside for years, referring to it whenever issues arise. As the white parents of an (adopted) biracial daughter, this book completely educated me on the issues that she may face at every point in her development. Not only does it highlight the issues, but ...             Children of Perdition: Melungeons And the Struggle of Mixed America (Melungeon Series)2 reviews Tim Hashaw Mercer University Press, 2006 Why has Amazon.com refused to show the review I submitted for this book? + Highly recommended as both history and ancient and modern social commentary I am a Melungeon descendant who formerly wrote a column on the topic in a history journal. I wrote an extensive review with some context for my remarks for Amazon, but it was refused. I rewrote it and it was still refused. From the point-of-view of those who have already read a great deal on the ...