"What Are You?" Biracial Children in the Classroom

Childhood Education, Summer 2008 by Baxley, Traci P

Friedman, I. (1984). How my parents learned to eat. New York: Houghton.

Hoffman, M. (1990). Nancy no-size. New York: Mammoth.

Igus, T., & Sisnett, A. (1996). Two Mrs. Gibsons. New York: Little Book Press

Johnson, A. (1996). The aunt in our house. New York: Orchard Books.

Katz, K. (1999). The color of us. New York: Henry Holt & Company.

Lamperti, N. (2000). Brown like me. Norwich, VT: New Victoria Publisher.

Little, O. M. (1996). Yoshiko and the foreigner. New York: Farrar Straus & Giroux.

Mills, C. (1992). A visit to Amy-Claire. New York: Macmillan.

Monk, I. (1998). Hope. New York: Carolrhoda Books.

Rattigan, J. K. (1993). Dumpling soup. New York: Little, Brown Books.

Ringgold, F. (1996). Bonjour, Lonnie. New York: Hyperion.

Spohn, D. (1991). Winter wood. New York: Lothrop.

Straight, S. (1995). Bear E. Bear. New York: Hyperion.

Wing, N. (1999). Jalapeno bagels. New York: Atheneum.

Wyeth, D. S. (1996). Ginger brown: Too many houses. New York: Random House.

Adolescent Books

Curry, J. (2005). Black canary. New York: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Division.

Forrester, S. (1999). Dust from old bones. New York: HarperCollins.

Meyer, C. (2007). Jubilee journey. New York: Harcourt.

Nash, R. D. (1995). Coping as a biracial/ biethnic teen. New York: The Rosen Publishing Group.

Viglucci, C. P. (1996). Sun dance at turtle rock. Rochester, NY: Stone Pine Books.

Woodson, J. (2003). The house you pass on the way. New York: Puffin Books.

Wyeth, D.S. (1995). The world of daughter McGuire. New York: Yearling Books.

Websites

Association of Multi-Ethnic Americans (AMEA): www.ameasite.org

Center for the Study of Biracial Children: www.csbc.cncfamily.com/

Interracial Voices: www.interracialvoice.com

The Multiracial Activist: www.multiracial.com

New People E-Magazine: www.newpeoplemagazine.com

Representation of Mixed Race People: www.mixedfolks.com

References

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CensusScope. (nd). Retrieved September 29, 2007, from www.censusscope.org/us/chart_multi.html

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