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Color of Water Readalikes
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September 2002
Compiled by Candice Michalik,
of Lynchburg (VA) Public Library, from contributions by the members of Fiction_L.
(To use this list in your library, book club, etc., please include the following credit line: "Compiled by the subscribers of the Fiction_L mailing list." This list may not be used for commercial purposes.)
- Beyond the Whiteness of Whiteness: Memoir of a White Mother of Black Sons by Jane Lazarre
- Life on the Color Line: the True Story of a White Boy Who Discovered He was Black by Greg Williams.
- The unusual story of a man who grew up believing he was\ white, but who discovered he had a father who passed
for Italian but who was actually half black. The family's split began his journey along the color line and the author's personal explorations of the social and economic differences between white and black worlds.
- Love in Black and White by Mark Mathabane.
- He is a black South African and wrote about his interracial marriage.
- Black, White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self by Rebecca Walker.
- The author is the daughter of Black writer Alice Walker and Jewish civil rights lawyer Mel Leventhal
- How Did You Get to Be Mexican?: A White/Brown Man's Search for Identity by Kevin R. Johnson.
- The son of a Mexican-American mother and an Anglo father, Johnson ponders life as a ``mixed-race'' man in the racially charged atmosphere of America.
- Divided to the Vein: A Journey into Race and Family by Scott Minerbrook.
- The author's father was a pampered black child, his mother an idealistic girl from a large poor white farming family; he himself grew up in the 1950s and 60s. His mixed family background and his later search for ethnic identity as an adult are the
subject of an autobiography which reflects on the powers of racial heritage and identity.
- Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance by Barack Obama.
- Son of a white American mother and of a black Kenyan father whom he never knew, Obama grew up mainly in Hawaii
- The Sweeter the Juice by Shirlee Taylor Haizlip
- Face by Aimee E. Liu.
- The story of a quarter-Chinese girl who grows up in Chinatown, and in her adult life returns to face the past of herself and her father.
- How I Became Hettie Jones, by Hettie Jones, the first wife of black poet LeRoi Jones, later Imamu Amiri Baraka.
- All Over But the Shoutin' by Rick Bragg
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