Interracial Literature

The list author says:
	"Sollors' collection looks at the legal documents and the some of the cases that shaped America's views on interracial identity."

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	"Davis' book looks at how the one-drop rule and other anti-miscegenation laws shaped Black identity in America."

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	"Both of these novels by this Harlem Renaissance writer describe the experience of people who are light-skinned and passing for white."

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	"James Weldon Johnson's novel is told from the point of view of an interracial man passing for various ethnicities and going through different communities."

The list author says:
	"Danzy Senna's debut novel is an account from a mixed girl of her Black father and her radical white mother in the midst of parental separation and conflict."

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	"One of my favorite anthologies of writing about interracial identity.  Senna's essay, "Make Mulattos, Not War", about a fictional interracial protest is hilarious."

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	"Diane Glancy's collection is a solid combination of poetry & prose from writers identifying with multiple heritages."

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	"This book is a contemporary collection of interviews with young people about their interracial identity and how it impacts their interactions with others."

The list author says:
	"Werner Sollors, a respected scholar on interracial identity, collected various pieces of fiction and poetry by Black, white and interracial writers with representations of interracial characters."

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	"Brenner's collection of critical essays about various works with interracial characters."

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	"Twain's wry sensibilities run amok when a young slave woman trades her light-skinned son for her slavemaster's son."

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	"Tretheway's second collection from the point of view of a young interracial woman who works in a New Orleans brothel and becomes the subject of art photography."

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	"This novel by Chesnutt features a prominent interracial character."

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	"McBride's best-selling biographical book about growing up with his white mother."

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	"Zadie Smith's debut novel features a racially mixed couple in the U.K. and what the mixing of cultures looks like outside the U.S."

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	"A collection of writing from mixed race women, particularly from women of Canadian and Caribbean descent, published on the sadly defunct Sister Vision Press."

The list author says:
	"moore's first collection from a racially-mixed poet who started off in the poetry slams and at Apollo Theater."

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	"The story by Fannie Hurst that inspired a film about passing and women's choices."

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	"Story of a girl of Native American and African American descent."

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	"Funderburg's series of 46 interviews with people of interracial descent."

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	"Rebecca Walker's memoir set during her coming of age and reconciliation with her mother, Alice Walker's distance."

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	"One of the books that I've been meaning to get through."