Category: Autobiography

  • The Plum Thicket University Press of Kentucky 1996-04-11 (Originally published in 1954) 284 pages Cloth ISBN: 978-0-8131-1947-2 (out of print) Paperback ISBN: 978-0-8131-0859-9 Janice Holt Giles (1905-1979) Janice Holt Giles had a life before her marriage and writing career in Kentucky. Born in Altus, Arkansas, Giles spent many childhood summers visiting her grandparents there. After…

  • Black Coral: A Daughter’s Apology To Her Asian Island Mother Research at the National Archives and Beyond BlogTalk Radio Thursday, 2013-09-05, 21:00 EDT, (Friday, 2013-09-06, 01:00Z) Bernice Bennett, Host C. D. Holmes-Miller, Clergywoman, Theologian, Designer, Author Mother with Clergywoman, Theologian, Communications Designer and author, The Rt. Reverend Dr. Cheryl D. Holmes-Miller aka Bishop Miller, M.S.,…

  • Master of None: How a Hong Kong high-flyer overcame the devastating experience of imprisonment Blacksmith Books October 2011 312 pages colour photo section Size: 14.6 x 21.6 cm Hardback ISBN: ISBN: 978-988-19002-7-2 John Hung Does a man need a stint in jail to complete his life experiences? From Stanley Prison, corporate high-flyer John T. Hung…

  • Being Mixed Race: Am I A Human Rorschach Test? Media Diversity UK: Tackling the lack of diversity in UK media and the ubiquity of whiteness 2013-09-03 Glen Chisholm Just last week I was standing at a bus stop when a gentleman; a complete stranger came and joined me. Nothing unusual about that, we then politely…

  • Rethinking Race in Brazil Journal of Latin American Studies Volume 24, Number 1 (February, 1992) pages 173-192 Howard Winant, Professor of Sociology University of California, Santa Barbara Introduction: the Repudiation of the Centenário 13 May 1988 was the 100th anniversary of the abolition of slavery in Brazil. In honour of that date, various official celebrations…

  • Two worlds… One reflection IDEATE: The Undergraduate Journal of Sociology University of Essex, Colchester, England Volume 10, Summer 2013 19 pages Yasmin Currid Introduction I went through most of my childhood believing that my family was just the same as everybody else’s. I did not realise that there was something slightly different about the dynamics…

  • Brown Babies: The Mischlingskinder Story Regina Griffin Films, Inc. 2011 102 minutes color United States Regina Griffin, Director Brown Babies: The Mischlingskinder Story reveals the tragic lives of biracial, bicultural children, unwanted, ignored and forgotten by enemy nations. Imagine being born in a place and time where racism and hatred run rampant, and your mother…

  • How my white mother shaped me into a black man Melissa Harris-Perry MSNBC 2013-08-13 Albert L. Butler, Radio Host 900 AM WURD, Philadelphia I am an avid watcher of Melissa Harris-Perry, so I was not at all surprised–and was quite pleased–when host Melissa Harris-Perry tackled the subject of white mothers raising black boys in America…

  • Actor Guilt 2nd Story Chicago, Illinois 2012-06-07 Khanisha Foster Coming up on two years ago I moved to L.A., and since that time I have been writing. Writing creative non-fiction for 2nd Story, an organization that has stolen my heart, and writing my memoir—I’m the kid of a former Black Panther career criminal and heroin-addicted…

  • Kiss & Tell: A Romantic Résumé, Ages 0 to 22 HarperCollins 2011-03-15 336 pages Trimsize: 6 3/4 x 9 1/4 Paperback ISBN: 9780062009234; ISBN10: 0062009230 eBook ISBN: 9780062078650; ISBN10: 0062078658 MariNaomi From her father and mother’s interracial marriage to her own “you show me yours, I’ll show you mine” moments on the playground—from drug experimentation…