Literature

“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

You Should Be Grateful: Stories of Race, Identity, and Transracial Adoption

Tucker, Angela; Beacon Press, 2023

Red and Yellow, Black and Brown
Decentering Whiteness in Mixed Race Studies

Joanne L Rondilla, Rudy P Guevarra, Paul Spickard; Rutgers University Press, 2013

Other Side of Paradise: A Memoir

Chin, Staceyann; Scibner Press, 2010

Born A Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood

Noah, Trevor; Random House Publishing Group, 2019

Mixed: My Life in Black and White

Nissel, Angela; Random Hosue Publishing, 2006

The Half Of It: Exploring the Mixed-Race Experience

Emma Slade Edmondson, Nicole Ocran; HarperCollins Publishers, 2025

Mixed-Blood Histories:
Race, Law, and Dakota Indians in the Nineteenth-Century Midwest

R Sweet, Jameson; University of Minnesota Press, 2025

Raising Mixed Race:
Multiracial Asian Children in a Post-Racial World

H. Chang, Sharon; Taylor & Francis, 2015

Revolutionizing Romance:
Interracial Couples in Contemporary Cuba

T Fernandez, Nadine; Rutgers University Press, 2010

FICTION Books

The Girl I Am, Was, and Never Will Be: A Speculative Memoir of Transracial Adoption

Gibney, Shannon Penguin Young Readers Group, 2023

The Girl Who Fell From the Sky

W. Durrow, Heidi; Little, Brown and Company, 2011

Amara: The Rise of the Shadow Blossoms: Book

Fikes, Gary; Tinted Reality Book, 2024

The Vanishing Half

Bennett, Brit; Riverhead Books, 2022

Mixed-Race Superheroes

A. Dagbovie-Mullins, Sika; Rutgers University Press, 2021

Sika A. Dagbovie-Mullins

the Black Flamingo

Atta, Dean; Quill Tree Books, 2010

Passing

Larsen, Nella; Penguin Classics, 2003

Black Cake: A Novel

Wilkerson, Charmaine; Ballantine Books, 2022

Halsey Street

Coster, Naima; Little a, 2018

Kindred

Butler, Octavia; Doubleday, 1979

“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.”