Books featuring Multiracial Black Characters & History

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Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country by Tiya Miles, Sharon Patricia Holland

Crossing Waters, Crossing Worlds: The African Diaspora in Indian Country

Tiya Miles, Sharon Patricia Holland

392 pages • first pub 2006 (editions)

nonfiction history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom by Tiya Miles

Ties That Bind: The Story of an Afro-Cherokee Family in Slavery and Freedom

Tiya Miles

306 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

nonfiction biography history challenging informative reflective slow-paced
Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy by Sheryll Cashin

Loving: Interracial Intimacy in America and the Threat to White Supremacy

Sheryll Cashin

232 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction history race informative reflective slow-paced
Loving vs. Virginia by Patricia Hruby Powell

Loving vs. Virginia

Patricia Hruby Powell

260 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction historical poetry race young adult emotional informative reflective slow-paced
The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South by Michael W. Twitty

The Cooking Gene: A Journey Through African American Culinary History in the Old South

Michael W. Twitty

453 pages • first pub 2017 (editions)

nonfiction food and drink history informative reflective slow-paced
Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California by J.P. Dancing Bear, Manny Moreno, Catherine Nelson-Rodriguez, Judi Brannan Armbruster, E.K. Cooper, Natalie Díaz, Senna Heyatawin, Wendy Rose, Kurt Schweigman, Sharmagne Leland-St. John, Jennifer Elise Foerster, Shaunna Oteka Mccovey, Kim Shuck, Nanette Bradley Deetz, Alison Hart, Roberta Reyes Cordero, Marlon Sherman, Deborah A. Miranda, Indira Allegra, John Hershman, Sylvia Ross, Sal Martinez, Jewelle L. Gómez, Frank Lapena, Carolyn Dunn, Dave Holt, Janice Gould, Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez, Linda Noel, Stephen Meadows, Lucille Lang Day

Red Indian Road West: Native American Poetry from California

J.P. Dancing Bear, Manny Moreno, Catherine Nelson-Rodriguez, Judi Brannan Armbruster, E.K. Cooper, Natalie Díaz, Senna Heyatawin, Wendy Rose, Kurt Schweigman, Sharmagne Leland-St. John, Jennifer Elise Foerster, Shaunna Oteka Mccovey, Kim Shuck, Nanette Bradley Deetz, Alison Hart, Roberta Reyes Cordero, Marlon Sherman, Deborah A. Miranda, Indira Allegra, John Hershman, Sylvia Ross, Sal Martinez, Jewelle L. Gómez, Frank Lapena, Carolyn Dunn, Dave Holt, Janice Gould, Georgiana Valoyce-Sanchez, Linda Noel, Stephen Meadows, Lucille Lang Day

110 pages • first pub 2016 (editions)

nonfiction poetry challenging emotional reflective medium-paced
Raceless: In Search of Family, Identity, and the Truth about Where I Belong by Georgina Lawton

Raceless: In Search of Family, Identity, and the Truth about Where I Belong

Georgina Lawton

304 pages • first pub 2021 (editions)

nonfiction memoir emotional informative reflective medium-paced
Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging by Afua Hirsch

Brit(ish): On Race, Identity and Belonging

Afua Hirsch

318 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

nonfiction history politics race challenging informative reflective medium-paced
Mostly White by Alison Hart

Mostly White

Alison Hart

200 pages • first pub 2018 (editions)

fiction contemporary emotional reflective slow-paced
Fledgling by Octavia E. Butler

Fledgling

Octavia E. Butler

310 pages • first pub 2005 (editions)

fiction fantasy horror lgbtqia+ dark mysterious tense medium-paced