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Within, Between, and Beyond Book Highlights

“We don’t know our true history, which means we don’t know our true trauma”

— Rohan Zhou-Lee, Black and Asian Solidarity panel

Nonfiction Books

Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza

Anzaldúa, Gloria
Aunt Lute Books, 3rd ed., 2007

Somebody’s Children: The Politics of Transracial and Transnational Adoption.

Briggs, Laura; Duke University Press, 2012

An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States

Dunbar-Oritz, Roxanne; Beacon Press, 2015

The Intimacies of Four Continents

Anzaldúa, Gloria
Aunt Lute Books, 3rd ed., 2007

Mixed Race Amnesia: Resisting the Romanticization of Multiraciality

Mahtani, Minelle; UBC Press; Reprint edition 2015

The Latinos of Asia: How Filipino Americans Break the Rules of Race

Ocampo, Anthony Christian; Stanford University Press, 2016

Blues Vision: African American Writing from Minnesota

Anzaldúa, Gloria
Aunt Lute Books, 3rd ed., 2007

Invisible Asians: Korean American Adoptees, Asian American Experiences, and Racial Exceptionalism

Nelson, Kim Park
New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2016

A Good Time for the Truth: Race in Minnesota

Shin, Sun Yung, ed.; Minnesota Historical Society Press: 2016

Multiple Overlapping Truths: A Mixed-Race Identity Development Workbook

Osunkoya Lola, MA, LPCC; 2023

Global Mixed Race

Edited by Rebecca C. King-O’Riain, Stephen Small, Minelle Mahtani, Miri Song and Paul Spickard; NYU Press, 2014

“Afrocentricity thus provides a mode through which all individuals

can liberate themselves from the restrictive dichotomization and hierarchical concepts of the modern Eurocentric model. It posits a cosmic vision that acknowledges an inheritance that all individuals share as descendants of the first diaspora, when humans migrated out of Africa to populate the globe.”

— G. Reginald Daniel, A New US Racial Project

Essays & Poetry

Hybrida: Poems

Chang, Tina
W.W. Norton, 2019

Islands of Decolonial Love

Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake; Arbeiter Ring Publishing, 2013

Citizen: An American Lyric

Rankine, Claudia
Graywolf Press, 2014

Not My White Savior

Lee, Julayne
Rare Bird Books, 2018

The Fire Next Time

Baldwin, James
Dial Press, 1963

Mixed: My Life in Black and White

Nissel, Angela
Villard, 2006

Unbearable Splendor

Shin, Sun Yung
Coffee House Press, 2016

Rough and Savage

Shin, Sun Yung
Coffee House Press, 2012

Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches

Lorde, Audre; Crossing Press, Reprint 2007

Catrachos

Guzmán, Roy G.
Graywolf Press, 2020

Intimations

Smith, Zadie
Penguin Books, 2020

War Baby / Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art

Kina, Laura; University of Washington Press, 2013.

Peer articles

EMERGING FEMINISMS, (F)Act of Blackness: The Politics of Mixed Race Identity.” The Feminist Wire, 2016.

Article written by Jazlyn Andrews for The Feminist Wire.

Mixed American Life

“Fight racism and bias by always questioning race.”

Mixed Dreams

Personal Mixed experience blog.

“Bill of Rights for Mixed People” and “The Multiracial Oath of Responsibility.”

Root, Maria P.P.

Love Imagined: Sherry

“Sherry Quan Lee approaches writing as a community resource and as culturally based art of an ordinary everyday practical aesthetic.”

The Tragic Mulatto Myth.

Pilgrim, David. Ferris State University, 2000

Journal of Critical Mixed Race Studies

“(JCMRS) is a peer-reviewed online interdisciplinary journal dedicated to Critical Mixed Race Studies (CMRS).”

Red Thread Broken

Author: Grace Newton

Children’s Library

Mixed: A Colorful Story

Picture Book
Chang, Aree
Henry Holt and Co., 2018

The Patchwork Bike

Picture Book
Clarke, Maxine Beneba
Candlewick Press, 2018

They Call me Guero

Middle Grades
Bowles, David
Cinco Puntos Press, 2018

Hurricane Child

Middle Grades
Callender, Kheryn
Scholastic Press, 2018

Bird

Middle Grades
Chan, Crystal
Antheneum, 2014

Front Desk

Middle Grades
Yang, Kelly
Arthur A. Levine Books, 2018

The Poet X

Young Adult
Acevedo, Elizabeth
HarperTeen, 2018

You Bring the Distant Near

Young Adult
Perkins, Mitali
Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2017

Black Enough: Stories of Being Young and Black in America

Young Adult
Zoboi, Ibi
Balzer + Bray, 2019. Pride. Balzer + Bray, 2018