Multiracial & Interracial EXperience (MIX)
R E A D I N G & R E S O U R C E L I S T
all titles submitted by MIX members; compiled by Binah Palmer
CHILDREN’S BOOKS / YOUNG ADULT
All the Colors We Are: the Story of How We Get Our Skin Color Katie Kissinger,
Wernher Krutein
Anthony’s Surprise Roz Grace
Black is Brown is Tan Arnold Adoff, Emily Arnold McCully
Brown Like Me Noelle Lampterti
Black, White, Just Right! Marguerite Davol, Irene Trivas
Children of the River Linda Crew
The Day We Met You Phoebe Koehler
Families are Different Nina Pellegrini
Finding My Voice Marie G. Lee
Free to Be . . .a Family Marlo Thomas, editor
Growing Up Filipino: Stories for Young Adults Cecilia Manguerra Brainard, editor
Horace Holly Keller
I Love Saturdays y Domingos Alma Ada, Elivia Savadier
I’m Brown and my Sister Isn’t. Robbie O’Shea
If It Hadn’t Been for Yun Joon Marie G. Lee
Is Your Family Like Mine? Lois Abramchik, Barbara Cavallo
Is That Your Sister? Catherine and Sherry Bunin
Jalapeno Bagels Natasha Wing, Robert Casilla
Lupita Manana Patricia Beatty
A Mother for Choco Keiko Kasza
My Feelings, My Self: A Journal for Girls Lynda Madaras, Area Madaras
Over the Moon: an Adoption Tale Karen Katz
Passage to Freedom: the Sugihara Story Ken Mochizuki, Dom Lee
A Rainbow all around me Sandra L. Pinkney, Myles Pinkney
Saying Goodbye Marie G. Lee
Something Good Robert Munsch, Michael Martchencko
Two Mrs. Gibsons Toyomi Igus, Daryl Wells
Trevor's Story: Growing Up Biracial Bethany Kandel, Carol Halebian
The White Swan Express: a Story about Adoption. Jean Davies Okimoto
Why am I different? Norma Simon, Dora Leder
You be Me, I’ll be You Pili Mandelbaum
BIOGRAPHIES / PERSONAL STORIES
After the Morning Calm: Reflections of Korean Adoptees Sook Wilkinson and Nancy Fox, editors
Adopted from Asia: How it feels to grow up in America Frances M. Koh
The Black Notebooks -- An Interior Journey Toi Derricotte
Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self Rebecca Walker
Black, White, Other: Biracial Americans Talk About Race and Ethnicity Lise Funderburg
Catfish and Mandala Andrew Pham
The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother James McBride
East to America: Korean American Life Stories Elaine Kim, Eui-Young Yu
Growing Up Asian American: an Anthology Maria Hong, Stephen Sumida, editors
Half & Half: Writers on Growing Up Biracial & Bicultural Claudine C. O'Hearn, editor
Hunger of Memory: The Education of Richard Rodriguez Richard Rodriguez
I Wish for You a Beautiful Life: Letters from the Korean Birth Mothers of Ae Ran Won to
Their Children Sara Dorrow and Sang-Soon Han, editors
I’ve Known Rivers: Lives of Loss and Liberation Sara Lawrence-Lightfoot
In the Shadow of Race: Growing Up As a Multiethnic, Multicultural, and “Multiracial”
American Teja Arboleda
The Island of the Colorblind Oliver Sacks
Life on the Color Line Gregory Howard Williams
The Lives of Jean Toomer: A Hunger for Wholeness Cynthia Earl Kerman and Richard
Eldridge
Monster:The Autobiography of an L.A.Gang Member Sanyika Shakur, Monster Kody
Scott
Multiracial Couples: Black & White Voices Paul C. Rosenblatt, Terri A. Karis, and
Richard R. Powell
Names We Call Home: Autobiography on Racial Identity Becky Thompson & Sangeeta
Tyagi, editors
Of Many Colors: Portraits of Multiracial Families Gig Kaeser and Peggy Gillespie,
Glenda Valentine
Paper Bullets: A Fictional Autobiography Kip Fulbeck
Quiet Odyssey: a Pioneer Korean American Woman in America Marie Paik Lee
The Rice Room: Growing Up Chinese-American from Number Two Son to Rock ‘n
Roll Ben Fong-Torres
Seeds from a Silent Tree: an Anthology by Korean Adoptees Tonya Bishoff and Jo
Rankin, editors
Showing My Color: Impolite Essays on Race and Identity Clarence Page
The Souls of Black Folk W.E.B. DuBois
Still Life with Rice Helie Lee
The Sweeter The Juice: A Family Memoir in Black and White Shirlee Taylor Haizlip
Ten Thousand Sorrows: the Extraordinary Journey of Korean War Orphan Elizabeth
Kim
Tripping on the Color Line: Blackwhite Multiracial Families in a Racially Divided World
Heather Dalmadge
The Unwanted: A Memoir of Childhood Kien Nguyen
Warrior Lessons: an Asian American Woman’s Journey into Power Phoebe Eng
Woman Warrior Maxine Hong Kingston
What Are You?: Voices of Mixed-Race Young People Pearl Fuyo Gaskins, editor
When I Was Puerto Rican Esmeralda Santiago
Yell-Oh Girls: Emerging Voices Explore Culture, Identity, and Growing Up Asian
American Vickie Nam, editor
NOVELS
Barrio Boy Ernesto Galarza, Rudolf Steiner
Bless Me, Ultima Rudofo Anaya
The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison
Caucasia Danzy Senna
How the Garcia Girls Lost Their Accents Julia Alvarez
Maru Bessie Head
On a Bed of Rice: an Asian American Erotic Feast Geraldine Kudaka, editor
Passing Nella Larsen
Their Eyes Were Watching God Zora Neale Hurston
SHORT STORIES/COLLECTIONS/ANTHOLOGIES/POETRY/PLAYS
The Armless Maiden: and Other Tales for Childhood’s Survivors Terri Windling, editor
Baptism of Desire: Poems Louise Erdich
This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color Cherrie Moraga, ed.
Cane Jean Toomer
Charlie Chan is Dead: an Anthology of Contemporary Asian American Fiction Jessica
Tarahata Hagedorn, editor
Emplumada Lorna Dee Cervantes
Fences August Wilson
Fire in the Mirror: Crown Heights, Brooklyn and Other Identities Anna Deavere Smith
A Good Scent from a Strange Mountain Robert Olen Butler
The House on Mango Street Sandra Cisneros
Into the Fire Sylvia Watanabe & Carol Bruchac, editors
One Stick Song Sherman Alexie
Sanctified Church Zora Neale Hurston
Tales from the Great Turtle Piers Anthony and Richard Gilliam, editors
The Toughest Indian in the World Sherman Alexie
THEORY / HISTORY
American Mixed Race: The Culture of Microdiversity Naomi Zack
“Bill of Rights for Racially Mixed People,” Maria P. P. Root, in Readings for Diversity and
Social Justice: an Anthology on Racism, Sexism, Anti-Semitism, Heterosexism, Classism, and Ableism (Maurianne Adams, ed.)
“Brown-Skinned White Girls: Class, Culture, and the Construction of White Identity in
Suburban Communities,” France Twine in Displacing Whiteness: Essays in Social and Cultural Criticism (Ruth Frankenburg, ed.)
The Content of Our Character: A New Vision of Race in America Shelby Steele
Cultural Literacy: What Every American Needs to Know E.D. Hirsch Jr
A Different Mirror: A History of Multicultural America Ronald Takaki
The Multiracial Experience: Racial Borders as the New Frontier Maria Root
New People: Miscegenation and Mulattoes in the United States Joel Williamson
New Perspectives on Racial Identity Development: A Theoretical and Practical Anthology
Charmaine Wijeyesinghe and Bailey W. Jackson, editors
Off White: Readings on Race, Power, and Society Michelle Fine, Linda Powell, l. Mun
Wong, editors
Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations bell hooks
Pedagogy of the Oppressed Paolo Freire
Race & Mixed Race Naomi Zack
Race Matters Cornell West
Race Traitor Noel Ignatiev and John Garvey
Racially-mixed People in America Maria P. P. Root, editor
Recovering History, Constructing Race: The Indian, Black, and White Roots of Mexican
Americans Martha Menchaca
The Social Construction of Race and Ethnicity in the United States Joan Ferrante-
Wallace, editor
Strangers & Kin: The American Way of Adoption Barbara Melosh
The Sum of Our Parts: Mixed-Heritage Asian Americans Teresa Williams-Leon, editor
Tripping on the Color Line: Blackwhite Multiracial Families in a Racially Divided World
Heather Dalmadge
Voices of the Self: A Study of Language Competence Keith Gilyard
Where Is Your Body? and Other Essays on Race, Gender and the Law Mari J. Matsuda,
editor
White Women, Race Matters : The Social Construction of Whiteness Ruth Frankenberg
Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations
About Race Beverly Daniel Tatum
RESOURCES / INSIGHTS
Being Adopted: the Lifelong Search for Self David Brodzinsky
I’m Chocolate, You’re Vanilla: Raising Healthy Black and Biracial Children in a Race-
Conscious World Marguerite Wright
Mixed Matches: How to Create Successful Interracial, Interethnic, and Interfaith Relationships Joel Crohn
Starting Small: Teaching Tolerance in Preschool & the Early Grades The Teaching
Tolerance Project, www.tolerance.org
Just Don't Marry One: Interracial Dating, Marriage, and Parenting George Yancey and
Sherelyn Whittum Yancey, editors
Guess Who's Coming to Dinner : Celebrating Interethnic, Interfaith, and Interracial Relationships Brenda Lane Richardson
Journey of the Adopted Self: a Quest for Wholeness Betty Jean Lifton
Twenty Things Adopted Kids Wish Their Adoptive Parents Knew Sherrie Eldridge
MOVIES / DOCUMENTARIES
Daughter from Danang (not rated, 2002)
Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner? (not rated, 1967)
Jungle Fever (R, 1991)
Losing Isaiah (R, 1995)
O (R, 2001) --a retelling of Shakespeare’s Othello
Rabbit-Proof Fence (PG, 2002)
Secrets and Lies (R, 1996)
Zebrahead (R, 1992)
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