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This is a comprehensive list of books with a multiracial or multicultural theme.
10 Steps to Successful International Adoption: A Guide...
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Product Description"What prospective adoptive parent wouldn't delight in this incredible mixture of research, practical tools, and reflections from fellow adoptive parents? Dr. Uekert speaks with the wisdom of a coach and the heart of a mother. I consider ...
21 Sugar Street by Lynn Lauber
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From Library JournalReturning in her debut novel to characters introduced in the short story collection White Girls ( LJ 2/15/90), Lauber continues her examination of the romance between Luther Biggs, a black mortician, and Loretta Dadio, a white girl who ...
A Mercy by Toni Morrison
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From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Nobel laureate Morrison returns more explicitly to the net of pain cast by slavery, a theme she detailed so memorably in Beloved. Set at the close of the 17th century, the book details America's untoward foundation: ...
A Mother for Choco by Keiko Kasza
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A yellow bird named Choco is “adopted” by Ms. Bear.
A Parchment of Leaves (Ballantine Reader's Circle) by S...
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From Publishers Weekly House offers a poignant, evocative look at the turmoil that plagues a rural Kentucky family during WWI in his solid second novel, which begins when Saul Sullivan takes a shine to a mysterious, beautiful Cherokee woman named Vine. Co ...
A Special Relationship by Yvonne Thomas
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Product Description Carrie Banks struggled to find her place in this world after numerous false starts. That was why she left her hometown and relocated to Florida to live with a sister she always knew would have her back. But her sister was making h ...
A Stranger in My Bed by Kevin Luttery
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Customer Review The author tells his story of entering into an interracial relationship with a young white woman. He tells of the pain and guilt and miscommunication that led to this relationship coming out of a relationship with a black woman he dee ...
A Taboo Attraction: What You Didn't Know About White Me...
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Product DescriptionAn enlightening look at a rare type of relationship. The author dares to go where few Authors have gone before. Her interpretation has a unique and refreshing perspective coming from an African American woman. Harris opens up doors thro ...
A Taste of Love: Richard by Marie Rochelle
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Product DescriptionDawn Summers has been in love with the sexy drawl of Richard Drace since she laid eyes on him three years ago. However, after the horrible incident in his office she finally realizes Richard is never going to return her feelings. She le ...
A Walk in Kumamoto: The Life & Times of Setsu Koizumi L...
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Product DescriptionProvides a rare insight into the daily life and idiosyncrasies of a world-famous cross-cultural (Japanese-British) marriage at the turn of the century.
A Wealth of Family: An Adopted Son's International Ques...
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The author's journey to find his biological parents. (Lithuanian Jews and Black Kenyan)
A World Overturned: A Burmese Childhood, 1933-47 by Mau...
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Product DescriptionAn autobiographical account by Maureen Baird-Murray, the daughter of a Burmese peasant girl and an Irishman serving in the Burma Frontier Service, providing insight into both good and bad experiences of a childhood disrupted by the Seco ...
Adjustment in Intercultural Marriage by Wen-Shing Tseng
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www.amazon.com/gp/product/902650845X?ie=UTF8&tag=evinanin-20The parents and teachers of 116 children adopted from Thailand participated in this Dutch study to measure four factors: Frankness, Attitude towards Work, Social Contact and Emotionality. (Thai and Dutch)
Adopted Children by Jan De Hartog
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It was first published in 1969 as The Children. This book is a series of essays about the adoption experience - specifically cross-cultural adoption.
Adopting a black child : family experiences of inter-ra...
www.amazon.com/gp/product/0903534169?ie=UTF8&tag=evinanin-20Stories about the experiences of White British families who adopt black children.
Adopting Maternity: White Women Who Adopt Transracially...
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Product DescriptionDiscusses the issues related to race, class, and gender involved in adoption based on in-depth interviews with 22 adoptive mothers. This text compares and contrasts the experiences of white women who adopted Asian, black, or biracial ch ...
Adoption across Borders: Serving the Children in Transr...
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Product DescriptionFor over thirty years, Rita J. Simon and Howard Altstein have been studying transracial and intercountry adoptions. The families they have studied include white parents; African American, Hispanic, and Korean children; and Jewish Stars ...
Adoption Journeys: Parents Tell Their Stories by Carole...
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An exploration, based on detailed interviews with 20 adoptive parents, of the complex issues and feelings around adoption.
Adoption, Race, and Identity: From Infancy through Adol...
www.amazon.com/gp/product/0275937488?ie=UTF8&tag=evinanin-20Product DescriptionThis volume examines the innovative placement of nonwhite (predominantly black) adoptees with white parents. In addition to reviewing recent court decisions involving race as a factor in child custody, Simon and Altstein examine the res ...
Adoption, Race, and Identity: From Infancy to Young Adu...
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Product DescriptionA long-range study of the impact of interracial adoption on those adopted and their families. Initiated in 1972, it was continued in 1979, 1984 and 1991. These four phases trace the subjects from early childhood into young adulthood. Th ...
Advancing Sisterhood?: Interracial Friendships in Conte...
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Product Description Though black and white women have long been associated with the heart of southern culture, their relationships with each other in the context of contemporary southern fiction have been largely glossed over until now. In Advancing ...
Adventure at Lookout Farm (The Kipton chronicles) by Na...
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Abby Randolf is angry that her parents are sending her to Lookout Farm to stay with the Whitaker family. At the farm she makes friends with the Whitakers twelve-year-old adopted black twins.
Against the Wind (Love Spectrum Romance) by Gwynne Fors...
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Back CoverLeslie Collins, an African-American bank officer, is forced to flee her home town to escape a man who attempted to rape her. After three years in jail, he is seeking revenge. Leslie takes a job as a cook on the Saber Estate for Jordan Saber, a s ...
AJ's Serendipity by Savannah J. Frierson
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Product DescriptionThe last thing Greek Alejandro Melonakos expected to find when shopping for food for his restaurant was the love of his life, but that was exactly who he found when he spotted Black American Samara Grossman across the marketplace. Will ...
All Blood Is Red All Shadows Are Dark by Authors John T...
www.amazon.com/gp/product/0916225003?ie=UTF8&tag=evinanin-20Customer Review by My Fathers Business - All Blood Is Red ... All Shadows Are Dark! is about behaviors that condition and dehumanize people into commonly accepted, rigid racial categories. A mixed-race family from Cleveland, Ohio, describes some of t ...
All but the Right Folks by Joan Kane Nichols
www.amazon.com/gp/product/0880450657?ie=UTF8&tag=evinanin-20Product Description A young black boy discovers that the mother he never knew was white and spends an unforgettable summer with his white grandmother in New York City, an experience which has a profound effect on him.
All the Colors of the Earth (Mulberry Books) by Sheila ...
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Product Description From School Library Journal Grade 1-4: A poetic picture book and an exemplary work of art. The simple text describes children's skin tones and hair in terms of natural phenomena ("...the roaring browns of bears"; "...hair that cu ...
Almighty God Created the Races: Christianity, Interraci...
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Product DescriptionIn this fascinating cultural history of interracial marriage and its legal regulation in the United States, Fay Botham argues that religion--specifically, Protestant and Catholic beliefs about marriage and race--had a significant effect ...
Amalgamation Schemes: Antiblackness and the Critique of...
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Product DescriptionDespite being heralded as the answer to racial conflict in the post–civil rights United States, the principal political effect of multiracialism is neither a challenge to the ideology of white supremacy nor a defiance of sexual racism. ...
Ambiguous Ethnicity: Interracial Families in London (Ch...
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Product Description The book is a study of the personal histories and everyday lives of a small number of interracial families living in and around Brixton, south London, in the early 1970s. Dr Benson sets the circumstances that confront these famili ...
American Knees by Shawn Wong (Author) and Jeffrey F. L....
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From Publisher’s Weekly: Second-generation Chinese-American hero Raymond Ding's cultural and amatory uncertainty goes back to a schoolyard taunt, "Are you Chinese, Japanese, or American knees?" that he has responded to with overcompensation, particul ...
An American Face by Jan Czech
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A Korean-born adoptee believes that attaining American citizenship will give him a new American face.
An Anthology of Interracial Literature: Black-White Con...
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Product DescriptionA white knight meets his half-black half-brother in battle. A black hero marries a white woman. A slave mother kills her child by a rapist-master. A white-looking person of partly African ancestry passes for white. A master and a slave ...
An Empty Lap: One Couple's Journey to Parenthood by Jil...
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A journalist chronicles her journey to parenthood. (Chinese and White)
An Interracial Movement of the Poor: Community Organizi...
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Product Description Community organizing became an integral part of the activist repertoire of the New Left in the 1960s. Students for a Democratic Society, the organization that came to be seen as synonymous with the white New Left, began community ...
Angel On Board by EJ Thornton
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Product DescriptionA novel about the afterlife, guardian angels in training and how someone who has passed on interacts with his/her family to bring them piece. It is a fun fiction romp through Heaven and a great way to look at life! Do you want to know i ...
Angels of Love: Celebrating Diversity and Adoption by L...
www.amazon.com/gp/product/1892073005?ie=UTF8&tag=evinanin-20A book designed to help children celebrate interracial adoption.
Ankiza (Roosevelt High School) by Gloria Velasquez
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Ankiza is shocked and hurt at the reaction of her family and friends when she starts dating a white student.
Approaches to Teaching Shakespeare's Othello (Approache...
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Product DescriptionInvestigating the paramount issues of race, gender, and sexuality in Othello; teaching the drama as an adventure play, as a tragedy and a comedy, as an antirevenge play; assessing the complex motivations of Iago; exploring the range of ...
Arc and the Sediment: a Novel by Christine Allen-Yazzie
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Product Description Gretta Bitsilly, a gin-steeped mother of two and self-proclaimed expert at standing just outside the margins of ethnicity and peering in, has been all but eclipsed by the world that eludes her—as a wife, as a writer, as a skepti ...
Are Those Kids Yours?: American Families With Children ...
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From Publishers Weekly Drawing from her own experiences and those of others who have adopted children from outside the United States, the author here addresses a range of issues by the query posed in the book’s title. How she and other parents help t ...
Are We in Love? (Sweet Valley High) by Francine Pascal
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Annie Whitman's new stepsister, Cheryl, is finally having fun in Sweet Valley, thanks to the friendship of her neighbor Steven Wakefield. Soon everyone-even Steven's twin sisters, Jessica and Elizabeth-assumes that Steven and Cheryl must be a couple. Afte ...
Arms of a Stranger by Giselle Carmichael
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Millionaire... Keithen Knight has gotten so caught up in the cycle of making money and keeping track of it that he has lost sight of the important things in life. Small Town Girl... She's living an unfulfilled life in the fast paced city that never sleeps ...
At Last (Indigo Love Spectrum) by Lisa G. Riley
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Product Description Caroline Singleton is a talented, successful African-American artist who was raised in the lap of luxury in her affluent Chicago neighborhood. On her way to a promising second interview with an integrated marketing firm, she bumps ...
Back to Honor: A Reggie Reynolds Mystery by J. T. Watso...
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Product Description Reggie Reynolds, a political reporter in Baltimore, returns to her hometown of Honor, Alabama when her beloved baby brother is found brutally murdered. Not only is she returning to confront this horrible news, but she is also retu ...
Back To Life by Wendy Coakley-Thompson
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1989. Bensonhurst, Brooklyn. An Italian mob murders a black teenager named Yusuf Hawkins. That same night, across the Hudson River in New Jersey, Lisa and Marc meet at a party. Lisa's black. Marc's Italian. They eventually hook up. But interpersonal confl ...
Barriers between Us: Interracial Sex in Nineteenth-Cent...
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Product DescriptionThis provocative book examines the representation of characters of mixed African and European descent in the works of African American and European American writers of the 19th century. The importance of mulatto figures as agents of ide ...
BB and the 'Baller: An Educational Affair by L. Langdon
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Product Description Sara Mosby was a brilliant young history professor at a university near Seattle and loved teaching and her research. Lately, however, her life had turned sour. Several irresponsible students--particularly some athletes--sought to ...
Beautiful Simone by Allen Applen
Product DescriptionPainted on a wide canvas reaching from the Carolina battlefields to the slave trading centers of Jamaica, this powerful love story gives the reader an intimate look into the hopes and fears of a family that after twenty years still cont ...
