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• Anatole Broyard
  Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir
  Read Publisher's Notes

• Joel Crohn
  Mixed Matches
  See Jana Wright's review.

• Toi Derricotte
  The Black Notebooks -- An Interior Journey
  See Jana Wright's review.

• Joan Ferrante and Prince Brown, Jr.
  The Social Construction of Race and Ethnicity in the United States
  "The Social Construction of Race and Ethnicity in the United States" is a five-part book that challenges conventional views of race and ethnicity by describing and critiquing the foundation of those views: the U.S. system of racial and ethnic classification. Readings in this textbook call attention to (1) the personal and systematic consequences of classifying people, (2) the U.S. government's obsession with "nonwhite peoples" reflected in its ongoing attempts to create racial categories and construct rules governing classification, (3) the scientific research disputing the logic of classifying people into race and ethnic categories; (4) the reasons classification persists in the face of overwhelming evidence disputing that logic, and (5) a new paradigm for thinking about "race/ethnicity" and "race-ethnic" relations.

  One essay in "The Social Construction of Race and Ethnicity in the United States" is "On Being Blackanese," which is from the Interracial Voice website. In fact, IV is required reading for co-author Joan Ferrante's race and gender course at Northern Kentucky University.

• Lise Funderburg
  Black, White, Other: Biracial Americans Talk About Race and Identity
  See the November 1995 IV interview with Ms. Funderburg

• Shirlee Taylor Haizlip
  The Sweeter The Juice: A Family Memoir in Black and White
  Haizlip starts out as a devoted believer in the "one drop" myth who wonders why she and her mother are the only "white" members of her "black" family. She decides to trace her mother's missing relatives, imaging them to be "blacks" who are "passing" as white. She's forced to change her mind as she encounters white relatives who remain "white" despite the revelation of their partial black ancestry. Haizlip herself moves more toward a multiracial as opposed to a purely "black" identity. --AD Powell

• Gig Kaeser and Peggy Gillespie
  Of Many Colors: Portraits of Multiracial Families
  See Jana Wright's review.

• Bethany Kandel
  Trevor's Story: Growing Up Biracial (Meeting the Challenge)
  Ten-year-old Trevor Sage-el describes his life at home and at school, his feelings about being the son of a white mother and a black father, and what he likes and does not like about being biracial.

• Cynthia Earl Kerman and Richard Eldridge
  The Lives of Jean Toomer: A Hunger for Wholeness
  "The most complete Toomer biography yet published -- and arguably the most important book on Toomer yet to appear." --Kirkus Reviews

• Claudine Chiawei O'Hearn
  "Half & Half: Writers on Growing Up Biracial + Bicultural"
  See Jana Wright's review.

• Clarence Page
  Showing My Color: Impolite Essays on Race and Identity
  See Jana Wright's review.

• Maria Root
  The Multiracial Experience: Racial Borders as the New Frontier
  See Jana Wright's review.

• Paul C. Rosenblatt, Terri A. Karis, and Richard D. Powell
  Multiracial Couples: Black & White Voices
  See Jana Wright's review.

• Danzy Senna
  Caucasia
  "Throughout the novel, Senna superbly illustrates the emotional toll that politics and race take on one especially gutsy young girl's development as she makes her way through the parallel limbos between black and white and between girl and young woman." -- The New York Times Book Review, Elizabeth Schmidt

• Shelby Steele
  The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America
  How both black and white Americans have become trapped into seeing color before character, and how social policies designed to lessen racial differences have instead made them greater. "One of the best books on race in America to appear in the past 25 years."-- Wall Street Journal

  Additionally, the IV Editor/Publisher quoted Mr. Steele in the editorials "Kweisi Mfume Just Doesn't Get It!" and "Leftist Socialism or Multiracial Libertarianism: Our Community's Two Choices?"

• Jean Toomer
  Cane
  A literary classic written during the time of the Harlem Renaissance, Cane is a collection of short stories, poems and sketches focusing on mulattoes and blacks in the South.

• Joel Williamson
  New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States
  New People is an insightful analysis of the miscegenation of American whites and blacks from colonial times to the present, of the "new people" produced by these interracial relationships, and of the myriad ways miscegenation has affected our national culture.

• Midge Wilson & Kathy Russell
  Divided Sisters: Bridging the Gap Between Black Women and White Women
  See Jana Wright's review.

• Naomi Zack
  American Mixed Race: The Culture of Microdiversity
  See Jana Wright's review.

• Gary B. Mills
  The Forgotten People: Cane River's Creoles of Color

• James E. DeVries
  Race and Kinship in a Midwestern Town: The Black Experience in Monroe, Michigan, 1900-1915 (Blacks in the New World)

• Michael P. Johnson and James L. Roark
  Black Masters: A Free Family of Color in the Old South

• David Montejano
  Anglos and Mexicans in the Making of Texas, 1836-1986

• Eric J. Hooglund
  Crossing the Waters: Arabic-Speaking Immigrants to the United States Before 1940

• Ronald Takaki
  Strangers from a Different Shore: A History of Asian Americans

• Robert S. Tilton
  Pocahontas: The Evolution of an American Narrative (Cambridge Studies in American Literature and Culture, No 83)

• William E. Unrau
  Mixed-Bloods and Tribal Dissolution: Charles Curtis and the Quest for Indian Identity

• Ramon A. Gutierrez
  When Jesus Came, the Corn Mothers Went Away: Marriage, Sexuality, and Power in New Mexico, 1500-1846

• Ira Berlin
  Slaves Without Masters: The Free Negro in the Antebellum South

• Mario T. Garcia
  Mexican Americans: Leadership, Ideology, and Identity, 1930-1960 (Yale Western Americana Series)

• Colin A. Palmer
  Slaves of the White God: Blacks in Mexico, 1570-1650

• Marilyn Halter
  Between Race and Ethnicity: Cape Verdean American Immigrants, 1860-1965 (Statue of Liberty-Ellis Island Centennial)

• N. Brent Kennedy with Robyn Vaughan Kennedy
  The Melungeons: The Resurrection of a Proud People: An Untold Story of Ethnic Cleansing in America

• James H. Dormon
  Creoles of Color of the Gulf South

• Francis Russell
  The Shadow of Blooming Grove; Warren G. Harding in His Times

• Stephen J. Ochs
  Desegregating the Altar: The Josephites and the Struggle for Black Priests, 1871-1960

• James W. Loewen
  The Mississippi Chinese: Between Black and White

• Lucy M. Cohen
  Chinese in the Post-Civil War South: A People Without a History

• Ian F. Haney Lopez
  White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race (Critical America Series)

• Karen Isaksen Leonard
  Making Ethnic Choices: California's Punjabi Mexican Americans

• Lisa See
  On Gold Mountain: The One-Hundred-Year Odyssey of My Chinese-American Family

• Melissa Fay Greene
  The Temple Bombing

• J. David Smith
  The Eugenic Assault on America: Scenes in Red, White, and Black

• David Stephen Cohen
  The Ramapo Mountain People

• Adele Logan Alexander
  Ambiguous Lives: Free Women of Color in Rural Georgia, 1789-1879

• Kent Anderson Leslie
  Woman of Color, Daughter of Privilege: Amanda America Dickson, 1849-1893

• Almon Wheeler Lauber
  Indian Slavery in Colonial Times Within the Present Limits of the United States

• Gerald M. Sider
  Lumbee Indian Histories; Race, Ethnicity and Indian Identity in the Sourthern United States

• Peter H. Wood
  Powhatan's Mantle: Indians in the Colonial Southeast

• J. Leitch Wright, Jr.
  The Only Land They Knew: The Tragic Story of the American Indians in the Old South

• Walter L. Williams
  Southeastern Indians Since the Removal Era

• Theda Perdue
  Slavery and the Evolution of Cherokee Society, 1540-1866

• Russell Thornton
  The Cherokees: A Population History (Indians of the Southeast)

• J. Leitch Wright, Jr.
  Creeks and Seminoles: Destruction and Regeneration of the Muscogulge People (Indians of the Southeast)

• Dennis McAuliffe, Jr.
  The Deaths of Sybil Bolton: An American History

• Daniel F. Littlefield, Jr.
  The Life of Okah Tubbee

• Donald B. Smith
  Long Lance: The True Story of an Imposter

• Jack D. Forbes
  Africans and Native Americans: The Language of Race and the Evolution of Red-Black Peoples

• Sylvia van Kirk
  Many Tender Ties: Women in Fur-Trade Society, 1670-1870

• Jacqueline Peterson and Jennifer S.H. Brown
  The New Peoples: Being and Becoming Metis in North America

• Mary R. Bullard
  Robert Stafford of Cumberland Island: Growth of a Planter

• Christopher Benfey
  Degas in New Orleans: Encounters in the Creole World of Kate Chopin and George Washington Cable

• Christopher Hawes
  Poor Relations: The Making of a Eurasian Community in British India, 1773-1833