Research Guides: Interracial Resources: Finding Books

Library of Congress Subject Headings

What is a subject heading and why is it important to searching for mixed race materials?

Use these subject terms to search the Library's catalog to find books and other materials on mixed race topics:

Racially mixed children -- Psychology.

Racially mixed children -- Attitudes.

Racially mixed children -- Ethnic identity.

Racially mixed people -- United States -- Biography.

Interethnic marriage

Intermarriage -- United States.

Interracial Marriage--Law and legislation (Divided geogrphically)

Loving, Richard Perry--trials, litigation, etc

Loving, Mildred Jeter--trials, litigation, etc

Passing (Identity) -- United States

Racially mixed people -- Civil rights -- United States.

Racially mixed people -- Race identity -- United States.

Racially mixed people -- Politics and government -- United States

Racially mixed people -- United States --Social conditions

Racially mixed people -- United States -- attitudes

Search the Library Catalog for what the Library Owns

The Library's catalog is a database of virtually all of the materials that the Library owns, including electronic and paper books, videos, DVDs, journal titles (not the individual articles within the journals), etc.

To search the catalog, paste the following search into the search engine: subject:("racially mixed" OR "interracial marriage")

For help with searching the catalog, please contact Ask a Librarian.

Books : Non-Fiction

Just Don’t Marry One : Interracial Dating, Marriage, and Parenting
BT 707.3 .J871 2002
This groundbreaking work weaves together the personal and professional perspectives of racially diverse Christian leaders as they confront this emotionally charged issue.
Adoption in a Color-Blind Society
HV 875.64 .Q85 2007
Illustrates how the political economy of private domestic adoption intersects with the political economy of racism to generate quite different demands for infants and children of different races and how the private adoption arena responds to these demands.
The browning of America and the evasion of social justice
E 184 .A1 S963 2008
Mixed race Hollywood
PN 1995.9 .R23 M59 2008
A pioneering compilation of essays on mixed-race romance, individuals, families, and stars in U.S. film and media culture.
Secret daughter : a mixed-race daughter and the mother who gave her away
E 185.97 .C825 A3 2006
The daughter of a white mother and black father describes the factors that caused her mother to place her in the custody of an African-American family and the impact of her mother's later choice to hide the truth about their relationship.
Half and half : writers on growing up biracial and bicultural
HQ 777.9 .H341 1998
Eighteen biracial and bicultural writers address the difficulties and benefits of growing up different in the United States.
Interracial intimacy : the regulation of race & romance
KF 4757 .M6671 2001
Fade : my journeys in multiracial America
PN 4874 .L555 A3 2006
With Fade, Lewis looks at the multiracial state of the union. Here he speaks with dozens of individuals, tackling hot-button issues such as the often complicated lives of multiracial people in communities of color, interracial dating, transracial adoption, immigration, and the birth of the multiracial movement.
Multiracial America: a resource guide on the history and literature of interracial issues.
Z 1361 .E4 M97 2005
The number of interracial couples and marriages in America is growing rapidly, with profound consequences for society at large. In light of these changes, librarians should find Multiracial America a welcome addition to their collections. It offers a thorough look at the pressing issues facing interracial couples.
Dispatches from the color line : the press and multiracial America
PN 4888 .R3 S68 2007
Squires looks at how journalists utilize information from many sources - including politicians, bureaucrats, activists, scholars, demographers, and marketers - to link multiracial identity to particular racial norms, policy preferences, and cultural trends.
Racially mixed people in America
E 184 .A1 R3241 1992
The multiracial experience : racial borders as the new frontier
E 184 .A1 M891 1996
The essays in this collection conduct a dialogue about race from a multiracial perspective.
Love's revolution : interracial marriage
HQ 1031 .R641 2001
When the Baby Boom generation was in college, the last miscegenation laws were declared unconstitutional, but interracial romances retained an aura of taboo. This title traces the social changes that account for the growth of intermarriage as well as the lingering prejudices and false beliefs that oppress racially mixed families.
Multiracial child resource book : living complex identites
HQ 777.9 .M85 2003
Published by Mavin Foundation
Meeting the needs of multiethnic and multiracial children in schools
LC 3621 .W371 2004
Racial categorization of multiracial children in schools
LC 3621 .C531 1998
Through critical examination of both government and school forms, curricula, classroom practices and behaviours, and teacher interviews, this book shows how children of multiple races are often "invisible" in American schools.
Of many colors : portraits of multiracial families
HQ 1031 .K331 1997
Based on an award-winning photo exhibit, this collection of interviews and photographs documents the feelings and experiences of "thirty-nine families who have bridged the racial divide through interracial marriage or adoption.

Books : Fiction

The arc and the sediment
PS 3601 .L43 A73 2007
The love wife
828 J51Lp
Imitation of life
PS 3515 .U785 I461 2004
Lady Moses
PR 6068 .O96 L33 1999
Marble mountain
PS 3561 .A625 M37 2008
Cotton
PR 6073 .I476 C68 2005
American knees
828 W87207am
Bedtime eyes
PL 865 .A475 B413 2006
The dim sum of all things
PS 3611 .E48 D56 2004
Meeting of the waters
PS 3563 .C384 M4 2001
Milk in my coffee
PS 3554 .I34 M5 1998
Caucasia
PS 3569 .E618 C2 1999
The professor's daughter
PS 3618 .A326 P761 2005