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OCU Reads - Secret Daughter / June Cross
Library Resource Guide
Read the Book
Cross, June. Secret Daughter: A Mixed-Race Daughter and the Mother Who Gave Her Away . New York: Viking, 2006.
On Reserve for short checkout (ask at the circulation desk)
In the Leisure Reading Collection in the Rapp Reading Room (call number Cross)
In the 4th floor circulating collection (call number 973.040596 C884s 2006)
Read Reviews
EBSCOhost includes many reviews.
Find Related Information in Books, Articles, and More
A reader's guide is available from Penguin
For books, DVDs, videos, or government documents on related subjects, use the search box at the top of the page to search the library’s catalog or WorldCat (for items available within a few weeks through “interlibrary loan”).
For articles on related subjects, use the 2nd search box at the top of the page to search the EbscoHost databases, or choose from a complete list of databases.
Here are some key words to help find relevant books and articles:
Affirmative action programs
African American dancers
African Americans - Race idenity
Afro-Americans - Race identity
Cross, James Arthur (Stump)
Cross, June
Interracial couples
Interracial marriage
Race awareness
Race relations in mass media
Storch, Larry
Whites - Race identity
Some Related Electronic Books
Electronic Books are available 24 hours per day, 7 days per week directly from your computer. Here is a selection of books on race relations and racial identity from the library’s electronic collection:
Appiah, Anthony. Color Conscious the Political Morality of Race. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 1996.
Banks, Ingrid. Hair Matters Beauty, Power, and Black Women's Consciousness. New York: New York University Press, 2000.
Baum, Bruce David. The Rise and Fall of the Caucasian Race a Political History of Racial Identity. New York: New York University Press, 2006.
Belluscio, Steven J. To Be Suddenly White Literary Realism and Racial Passing. Columbia: University of Missouri Press, 2006.
Berger, Martin A. Sight Unseen Whiteness and American Visual Culture. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2005.
Gabriel, John. Racism, Culture, Markets. New York: Routledge, 1994.
Gabriel, John. Whitewash Racialized Politics and the Media. New York: Routledge, 1998.
Golden, Marita. Don't Play in the Sun One Woman's Journey Through the Color Complex. New York: Doubleday, 2004.
Sollors, Werner. Neither Black Nor White Yet Both Thematic Explorations of Interracial Literature. New York: Oxford University Press, 1997.
Weedon, ChrisIdentity and Culture. Maidenhead: Open University Press, 2004.
Some Related Article Ideas
The library has access to thousands of Articles from journals, magazines, and newspapers about themes included in Secret Daughter. Many of these are available directly from the computer. Others are available in the library or within a few weeks through “interlibrary loan”. The following subjects and databases are simply a sample of what is available.
The general EBSCOhost search box at the top of the library page is good for getting started with broad topics, for example, mixed race families.
Academic Search Complete is great for more targeted subject searching, for example, race identity.
JSTOR provides access to older academic journal articles, which can provide interesting perspectives. Try searches such as "interracial marriage" or "mass media and race relations.
For additional perspectives, explore subject related databases. The links below search on "race relations."
Art and Architecture Complete
ATLA Religion Database
Biological Abstracts
Business Source Complete
CINAHL+ (nursing database)
Communications and Mass Media Complete
Education Research Complete
EconLit with Full Text
ERIC (education database)
Humanities International Complete
International Bibliography of Theatre and Dance
MLA International Bibliography language and literature database
Music Index
Political Science Complete
PsycInfo (psychology database)
Please send your ideas for additional resources to vswinney@okcu.edu
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