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Breeding
Between the Lines: Why Interracial People are Healthier and
More Attractive
by Alon Ziv
We thought the title is hilarious! This book combines sex,
race, health and genetics in a daring new theory. Written with
accessible, direct prose, anecdotes, analogies, and examples
from human and animal studies, it is sure to spark debate in
a massive way. 2006
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The Great
Transformation : The Beginning of Our Religious Traditions
by Karen Armstrong
Armstrong narrates the evolution of the religious traditions
of the world from their births to their maturity, and examines
the ways that specific religious traditions from Buddhism and
Confucianism
to Taoism and Judaism
responded to the various cultural forces they faced in history. 2006
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Part Asian,
100% Hapa
by Kip Fulbeck, Paul Spickard, Sean Lennon
Award-winning film producer and artist Kip Fulbeck has created
a forum in word and image for Hapas to state their identities.
An
introduction
to the rest of the world and an affirmation
for Hapas themselves, who now number in
the millions, it offers a new perspective on a rapidly
growing population. 2006
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Good Luck
Life : The Essential Guide to Chinese American Celebrations
and Culture
by Rosemary Gong
If you ever want to learn about Chinese American culture or
Chinese Cantonese culture, this is a good book to start. Get
some ideas for celebrating Chinese New Year or learn some manners
for your next
Chinese
wedding. 2005
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The
Asian Mystique: Dragon Ladies, Geisha Girls, & Our
Fantasies of the Exotic Orient
by Sheridan Prasso
A prize-winning journalist and Asia expert issues a provocative
critique of the West's eroticized illusions about Asia and
how profoundly they color our social, cultural, business, personal,
and political interactions. 2005
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Western
Influence On Japanese Art: The Akita Ranga Art School
by Hiroko Johnson
The Akita Ranga art school is a by-product
of rangaku, ‘Dutch learning’, an important intellectual
movement in eighteenth-century Japan. Akita ranga artists,
highly influenced by illustrations in Western books, created
a new direction in Japanese art. 2005
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Does
Anybody Else Look Like Me?: A Parent's Guide to Raising
Multiracial Children
by Donna Jackson Nakazawa
Based on personal experience and interviews conducted with
multiracial families, Nakazawa has skillfully combined research
with philosophy of childhood and educational development. 2004
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Some of My
Best Friends : Writers on Interracial Friendships
by Emily Bernard
Bernard's collection of esseys represents friendships complicated
by race and history. The writings elegantly articulated these
personal stories with honesty. 2004
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War
Against the Weak: Eugenics and America's Campaign to
Create a Master Race
by Edwin Black
In 1904 a group
of US scientists and eugenicists launched an ambitious
new race-based movement to eliminate social "undesirables." 2004
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The
Chinese in America
by Iris Chang
This time spanning memoir chronicles the Chinese struggle
to forge an identity and a destiny in a strange land and find
success despite great obstacles. 2004
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Dreams
from My Father : A Story of Race and Inheritance
by Barack Obama
Born in 1961 to a white American woman and a black Kenyan
student, Obama was reared in Hawaii by his mother and her parents.
He struggled with racial identity, racism, poverty, and corruption,
in Chicago and in Kenya. Yet he found community and authenticity
in everyday people. 2004
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Life
al Dente: Laughter and Love in an Italian-American Family
by Gina Cascone
The memoir describes hilarious scenes from an Italian-American
girlhood, but it has its more serious reflections on cultural
identity as well. 2003
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Mapping
Human History: Genes, Race, and Our Common Origins
by Steve Olson
Steve Olson traces the origins of modern humans and the migrations
of our ancestors throughout the world over the past 150,000
years. 2003
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Unfolding
History Evolving Identity: The Chinese in New Zealand
by Manying Ip (Editor), Nigel Murphy,
Elsie Ho, Beven Yee
A comprehensive overview of a Chinese immigrant community
in an Anglo-Celtic society throughout New Zealand's history.
2003
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The
Lost Daughters of China: Abandoned Girls, Their
Journey to America, and the Search for a Missing Past
by Karin Evans
Part memoir, part travelogue, part East-West cultural commentary,
and part adoption how-to, Karin Evans weaves together her experience
of adopting a Chinese infant. 2001
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Intercountry
Adoption from China: Examining Cultural Heritage and Other
Postadoption Issues
by Jay W. Rojewski, Jacy L. Rojewski
Historical and present-day issues affecting intercountry adoptees
and their families, such transracial adoption, the effects
of institutionalization, parent-child attachment, discrimination
and racial prejudice, and identity development. 2001
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Thinking
Orientals: Migration, Contact, and Exoticism in Modern
America
by Henry Yu
In this study of Asian Americans and the modern racial formation
of America, Yu explained the difference between and the history
behind "Oriental" and "Asian-American." 2001
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Asian
American Dreams: the Emergence of an American People
by Helen Zia
Helen Zia traces the transformation of Asian Americans from
disconnected invisible ethnic groups into a influencial and
self-identifying constituency. 2001
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The
Half-Jewish Book : A Celebration
by Daniel Klein, Freke Vuijst
The Half-Jewish Book is Daniel Klein and Freke Vuijst's amalgamation
of humorous essays, interviews, illustrations, holiday menus,
and song lyrics--all gathered in service of the idea that a
half-Jew is Jew enough. 2000
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I'm
Chocolate, You're Vanilla: Raising Healthy Black and Biracial
Children in a Race-Conscious World
by Marguerite A. Wright
With wisdom and compassion, I'm Chocolate, You're Vanilla
spells out how to educate black and biracial children about
race, while preserving their innate resilience and optimism--the
birthright of all children. 2000
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The
Festive State: Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism as Cultural
Performance
by David M. Guss
If culture is a contested terrain with constantly changing
contours, then festivals are its battlegrounds in large acts
of public display. 2000
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The
Accidental Asian
by Eric Liu
As a second-generation Chinese-American from a white suburb,
Eric Liu candidly talks about his growing up with an awkward
and perhaps skewed attitude toward race and ethnic identity.
1999
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Leaving
Deep Water
by Clair S. Chow
Drawing from
the personal narratives of dozens of women from China,
Japan, Korea, and other Asian countries, Chow analyzes
the issue of integrating ethnic identity into mainstream
American culture. 1999
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The
Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down
by
Anne Fadiman
Winner of the
National Book Circle Award. With best intensions, a medical
community clashes with the Hmong people's cultural tradition,
resulting in a tragic case of cultural miscommunication.
1998
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Half
and Half: Writers on Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural
by Claudine C. O'Hearn
These eighteen essays, joined by a shared sense of duality,
address the difficulties of not fitting into and the benefits
of being part of two worlds. Through the lens of personal
experience, they offer a broader spectrum of meaning for
race and culture. And in the process, they map a new ethnic
terrain that transcends racial and cultural division. 1998
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In Light
of India
by Octavio Paz
The Nobel laureate and ambassador to India in the Sixties,
Paz infuses these three essays on India's history and culture
with "perceptive comparison...between India and his native
Mexico" as he examined the complex influences of religions in
Indian history, society, literature, and art. 1998
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The
Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother
by James McBride
Written in remembrance
of his Polish-born, Southern-raised Jewish mother who married
a black man and raised twelve children, all of whom completed
college. 1997
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Warriors
Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate
Little Rock's Central High
by Melba Patillo Beals
At age 15, Beals and several black teenagers were chosen to
breach racial discrimination and enter the otherwise all-white
Little Rock Central High. 1995
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