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Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1925.
Language
English
Description
The Sailor's Return (1925) is a novel by David Garnett. Published several years after Garnett was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Hawthornden Prize for Lady into Fox (1922), his fourth novel explores themes of race and empire, while showcasing the author's original-and often controversial-literary style. "He was in no hurry to go ashore, and waited half an hour for the confusion to be straightened out on board, and the turmoil...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
[1980]
Language
English
Description
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. Because the majority of American blacks are of mixed ancestry, and because mulattoes and pure blacks ultimately combined their cultural heritages, what begins in the colonial period as mulatto...
Author
Publisher
Arthur A. Levine Books, an imprint of Scholastic Inc
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
The story of interracial couple Mildred and Richard Loving, who got married in Washington, D.C., and were arrested after they returned to Virginia, and took their legal case all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court.
10) Turbott Wolfe
Author
Language
English
Description
"William Plomer's first novel, which first appeared in 1926, ignited a firestorm of controversy in his native South Africa. At the novel's center is Turbott Wolfe, a British trader who opens a general store in Lembuland. He befriends many of his black customers but has less luck ingratiating himself with the bigoted whites who have lived in the area for generations. Eventually, Wolfe and his comrades embrace miscegenation as the key to Africa's future...
15) The Narrows
Author
Series
Publisher
Beacon Press
Pub. Date
1988.
Language
English
Description
"Set in the sleepy New England town of Monmouth, Connecticut, in the 1950s, The Narrows tells the story of a forbidden love affair in which class and race play significant roles. When Link Williams, a Dartmouth-educated but unemployed young [Black] man, falls in love with Camilo Sheffield, a rich white married woman, Monmouth is shaken by personal as well as community tragedy."--Lower cover.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Pub. Date
2006.
Language
English
Description
This is the most comprehensive and up-to-date book on the increasingly important and controversial subject of race relations in Brazil. North American scholars of race relations frequently turn to Brazil for comparisons, since its history has many key similarities to that of the United States. Brazilians have commonly compared themselves with North Americans, and have traditionally argued that race relations in Brazil are far more harmonious because...
Publisher
Lifetime
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
"A day late and a dollar short: When the matriarch of a dysfunctional family discovers that her next asthma attack might kill her, she sets out to strengthen and renew her bonds with her husband and children." --
"What color is love?: A white woman has an affair with a married African-American basketball star and challenges him for custody of their mixed-race son. Inspired by a true story." --
Author
Publisher
Beacon Press
Language
English
Formats
Description
Loving beyond boundaries is a radical act that is changing America. When Mildred and Richard Loving wed in 1958, they were ripped from their shared bed and taken to court. Their crime: miscegenation, punished by exile from their home state of Virginia. The resulting landmark decision of Loving v. Virginia ended bans on interracial marriage and remains a signature case--the first to use the words "white supremacy" to describe such racism. Drawing from...