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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:

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."