interracial marriage

Over the course of a long summer in Wales, sixteen-year-old Ginny, the mixed-race, artist daughter of an English father and a Haitian mother, learns that she has a half-brother from her father's earlier marriage, and that her own mother may still be alive. Suggested level: senior secondary.

A tragic story in which two childhood sweethearts in Senegal--Mireille, the white daughter of a French diplomat and Ousmane, the Black son of a poor Muslim family--defy their parents and society to marry, but eventually Ousmane is pulled back to his racial and cultural roots and Mireille is left to cope alone.

"There are well over five million interracial marriages in the United States. Meanwhile, adoptions and remarriages are create even more multiracial families all the time. These blends of ethnicities and cultures present special challenges for kids and parents-but they also offer great opportunities and joy. This book explores the past, present, and future of multiracial families"--Provided by the publisher.

When her mother dies, eleven-year-old Comfort leaves England to live with her father in Ghana.

Contains full explanatory notes opposite edited text of one of the earliest printed editions of Shakespeare's play.

1958: Richard and Mildred Loving were jailed because their marriage was not legally recognized in Virginia. In 1967, Loving v. Virginia went all the way to the Supreme Court.

Written in blank verse, the story of Mildred Loving, an African American girl, and Richard Loving, a Caucasian boy, who challenge the Virginia law forbidding interracial marriages in the 1950s.

After her father dies within hours of being married to a white woman, a ten-year-old black girl learns with her new mother to overcome grief and to adjust to a new place in their rural black South Carolina community.

When fourteen-year-old Staggerlee, the daughter of a racially mixed marriage, spends a summer with her cousin Trout, she begins to question her sexuality to Trout and catches a glimpse of her possible future self.

The author relates the story of his relationship with his uncle Shanti Behari Seth, who was sent to Germany as a young man in the 1930s to study medicine and dentistry, and Shanti's wife, Helga Gerda Caro, a Jewish German.