Multiracial/Multiethnic People: Selected Resources

Clara M. Chu, Compiler (June 1999)

UCLA Department of Information Studies


Fiction, Biography, and Essays

Azoulay, Katya Gibel. Black, Jewish and Interracial: It’s Not the Color of Your Skin but the Race of Your Kin. Duke University Press, 1997. $15.95.

Bowman, Elizabeth Atkins. White Chocolate. Forge, 1998. $23.95. (1999, $6.99)

Camper, Carol, ed. Miscegenation Blues: Voices of Mixed Race Women. Toronto: Sister Vision, 1994. $19.95.

Chrystos. Fugitive Colors. Cleveland State University Poetry Center, 1995. $10.00.Dickey, Eric Jerome. Milk in My Coffee. E.P. Dutton, 1998. $23.95.

Featherson, Elena, ed. Skin Deep: Women Writing on Color, Culture and Identity. Freedom, CA: The Crossing Press, 1994. $14.95.

Ganesan, Indira. Inheritance. New York: Alfred A Knopf, 1998. $22.00.

Haizlip, Shirlee Taylor. The Sweeter the Juice: A Family Memoir in Black and White. New York: Touchstone Books, 1994. $11.00.

Johnson, Kevin R. How Did You Get to be Mexican? A White/Brown Man’s Search for Identity. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1999. $27.95.

Jones, Lisa. Bulletproof Diva: Tales of Race, Sex and Hair. New York: Anchor Books (Bantam Doubleday Dell), 1994. $11.00.

Lazarre, Jane. Beyond the Whiteness of White: Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons. Duke University Press, 1996. $17.95.

O'Hearn, Claudine C. Half and Half: Writers on Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural. Pantheon Books, 1998. $13.00.

Parks, Mary Anderson. The Circle Leads Home. University Press of Colorado, 1998.

Scales-Trent, Judy. Notes of a White Black Woman: Race, Color, Community. Pennsylvania State University Press, University Park, 1995. $22.50.

Senna, Danzy Caucasia. Putnam Publishing Group, 1998. $24.95.

Roy, Lucinda. Lady Moses: A Novel. HarperCollins, 1998. $24.00.

See, Lisa. On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of a Chinese American

Family. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1995. $24.95.

Tyav, Kathleen. A Little Too Much is Enough. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1995. $18.00.

Non-Fiction

Arboldea, Teja. In the Shadow of Race: Growing Up As a Multiethnic, Multicultural, and 'Multiracial' American. Lawrence Erlbaum Association, 1998. $24.50.

Chideya, Farai. The Color of Our Future: Our Multiracial Future. William Morrow & Co., 1999. $23.00

Chiong, Jane Ayers. Racial Categorization of Multiracial Children in School. Bergin & Garvey, 1998. $45.00.

Funderberg, Lise. Black, White, Other: Biracial Americans Talk About Race and Identity. New York: William Morrow and Company, 1994. $25.00.

Gill, Owen and Jackson, Barbara. Adoption and Race: Black, Asian, and Mixed Race Children in White Families. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 1983.

Kaeser, Gigi et al. Of Many Colors: Portraits of Multiracial Families. University of Massachusetts Press, 1997. $19.95.

Katz, Ilan. The Construction of Racial Identity in Children of Mixed ParentAges Mixed Metaphors. Jessica Kingsley Pub., 1996. $29.95.

Lott, Juanita Tamayo. Asian Americans; From Racial Category to Multiple Identities. AltaMira Press: California, 1998. $38.00.

Reddy, Maureen T. Crossing the Colorline: Race, Parenting, and Culture. Rutgers University Press, 1994. $22.95.

Register, Cheri. "Are Those Kids Yours?" American Families with Children Adopted From Other Countries. New York: Free Press, 1994. $16.95.

Root, Maria P. P.,, ed. Racially Mixed People in America. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1992. $32.00.

------------. The Multiracial Experience: Racial Borders as the New Frontier. Newbury Park, CA: Sage Publications, 1996. $32.00.

Sollors, Werner. Neither Black Nor White Yet Both: Thematic Explorations of Interracial Literature. Oxford University Press, 1997. $39.95.

Spencer, Jon Michael and Van Der Ross, Richard E. The New Colored People: The Mixed- Race Movement in America. New York University Press, 1997. $25.00.

Tizard, Barbara and Phoenix, Ann. Black, White, or Mixed Race?: Race and Racism in the Lives of Young People of Mixed Parentage. London: Routledge, 1993.

Wehrly, Bea. Counseling Multiracial Families. Altamira Press, July 1999.

Wilson, Anne. Mixed Race Children: A Study of Identity. London: Allen & Unwin, 1987.

Wright, Margaret A. I’m Chocolate, You’re Vanilla: Raising Healthy Black and Biracial Children in a Race-Conscious World. Josey-Bass Publishers, 1998. $22.00.

Zack, Naomi. Race and Mixed Race. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1993. $19.95.

------------, ed. American Mixed Race: The Culture of Microdiversity. Rowman & Littlefield, 1995. $73.00.

Children

Adoff, Arnold. Black is Brown is Tan. Illustrated by Emily Arnold McCully. HarperCollins, 1992. $15.95 and $4.95. Ages 4-8.

Davol, Marguerite W. Black, White, Just Right! Illustrated by Irene Trivas. Concept Books, 1993. $14.95. Ages 4-8.

Dorris, Michael. The Window. Photographer Ken Robbins. Disney Press, 1997. $16.95. Ages 9-12.

Hall, Lynn. The Tormentors. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1990. $3.95. Ages 9-12.

Hamilton, Virginia. Plain City. Scholastic Trade, 1993. $13.95. Ages 9-12.

Jenness, Aylette. Families: A Celebration of Diversity, Commitment and Love. Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1990. $4.95. Ages 9-12.

Johnson, Angela. The Aunt in Our House. Illustrated by David Soman. Orchard Books, 1996. $16.99. Ages 4-8.

Kandel, Bethany. Trevor’s Story: A Book About a Biracial Boy (Meeting the Challenge). Illustrated by Carol Halebian. Minneapolis: Lerner, 1997. Ages 4-8.

Katz, Karen. The Color of Us. Holt Rinehart & Winston, 1999. $15.95. Ages 4-8.

Viglucci, Pat Costa. Sun Dance Turtle Rock. Stone Pine Books, 1996. $4.95. Ages 9-12.

Wyeth, Sharon Dennis. The World of Daughter McGuire. New York: Delacorte Press, 1994. $14.95. Ages 9-12.

Woodwon, Jacqueline. If You Come Softly. Putnam, 1998. Ages 9-12.

 

Young Adult

Adoff, Arnold. All the Colors of the Race. Illustrated by John Steptoe. New York Beech Tree, 1982. $4.95.

Bell, William. Zack. Simon & Schuster, 1999. $16.95.

Hamilton, Virginia. Arilla Sun Down. Point, 1995. $4.99.

Garland, Sherry. The Last Rainmaker. Harcourt Brace, 1997. $12.00.

Gaskins, Pearl, ed. What Are You? Voices of Mixed-Race Young People. Henry Holt & Co., 1999. $18.95.

Nash, Renea D. Coping as a Biracial/Biethnic Teen (Coping Series). Rosen Publishing Group, 1995. $17.95.

------------. Everything You Need to Know About Being a Biracial/Biethnic Child (Need to Know Library). Rosen Publishing Group, 1995. $17.95.

Porte, Barbara Ann. Something Terrible Happened. New York: Orchard Books, 1994. $16.95.

 

 

(NOTE: Titles only listed. URL provided for pages with broader coverage.)

Race/Ethnic-Related

Organizations: Social/Cultural/Community Organizations

Organizations: Activist/Political Organizations

Organizations: Adoption Agencies

Personal/Family Homepages

Magazines and Journals

Usenet Discussion Groups

Discussion Lists

Multiracial Category for Census

Documents, Conferences

Miscellaneous/Research, Library, and Educational Resources