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2) Othello
Author
Language
English
Description
Presents the original text of Shakespeare's play side by side with a modern version, with marginal notes and explanations and full descriptions of each character.
3) The foursome
Author
Language
English
Description
"When Eng and Chang Bunker arrive in Wilkes County in 1839, they're not just a curiosity--they're a sensation. Everyone is eager to learn whether the salacious rumors about them are true. Within months, the twins have opened a general store, bought land, and begun building a plantation. Now, word has it, they're looking for wives--and in a place that thrives on gossip and legacy, their ambitions set the community on edge. Sarah and Adelaide Yates,...
4) Scatterlings
Author
Publisher
HarperVia, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Publication Date
2022.
Physical Desc
279 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
In 1927 South Africa, when the Immorality Act is passed, prohibiting sexual intercourse between Europeans (white people) and natives (Black people), married couple Alisa and Abram find their bond in tatters, which leads Alisa to commit a devastating act, one that will reverberate through their entire family's lives.
Author
Publisher
Lawrence Hill Books
Publication Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xi, 196 pages)
Language
English
Description
A black person's guide to interracial relationships with practical ways for dealing with their unique challenges. Includes tips for handling family disapproval, blending traditions, and raising biracial children.
7) Loving
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Publication Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (2 hr., 3 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, whose challenge of their anti-miscegenation arrest for their marriage in Virginia led to a legal battle that would end at the US Supreme Court.
Author
Publisher
Essential Library
Publication Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (112 pages) : illustrations (some color).
Language
English
Description
Discusses the historical events and legislation that addressed race and marriage in the United States. Explores different legal proceedings and notable laws, from promoting anti-miscegenation laws to immigration bans to progressive definitions of family and marriage. Provides color and black-and-white images throughout, discussion questions, examples and sidebars, and essential facts section, a glossary, source notes, sources for further information,...
Author
Publisher
New Hope Publishers
Publication Date
c2010
Physical Desc
315 p. ; 23 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Orphaned four years earlier when their parents, active in the African National Congress ANC movement against apartheid, were murdered, 16-year-old Chioma and her 15-year-old brother Masozi now live and work on an Afrikaner family's farm. When Chioma and Andrew, the farm owner's son, find themselves attracted to one another, tragedy revisits their lives. Chioma escapes to join an ANC rebel band in her effort to survive and gain revenge for her family...
10) White teeth
Author
Language
English
Description
On New Year's morning, 1975, Archie Jones sits in his car on a London road and waits for the exhaust fumes to fill his Cavalier Musketeer station wagon. Archie--working-class, ordinary, a failed marriage under his belt--is calling it quits, the deciding factor being the flip of a 20-pence coin. When the owner of a nearby halal butcher shop (annoyed that Archie's car is blocking his delivery area) comes out and bangs on the window, he gives Archie...
Author
Publisher
Core Library
Publication Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (48 pages) : illustrations (some color), color map.
Language
English
Description
Explores the Supreme Court case that challenged and eventually overturned Virginia's law forbidding interracial marriages. Includes photographs, sidebars discussing different perspectives, critical thinking questions, a glossary, and further resources.
Author
Language
English
Description
From acclaimed author Patricia Hruby Powell comes the story of a landmark civil rights case, told in spare and gorgeous verse. In 1955, in Caroline County, Virginia, amidst segregation and prejudice, injustice and cruelty, two teenagers fell in love. Their life together broke the law, but their determination would change it. Richard and Mildred Loving were at the heart of a Supreme Court case that legalized marriage between races, and a story of the...
Author
Publisher
Oni Press, Inc
Publication Date
2016.
Physical Desc
53 pages : chiefly color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
When the heroic princess Amira rescues the kind-hearted princess Sadie from her tower prison, neither expects to find a true friend in the bargain. Yet as they adventure across the kingdom, they discover that they bring out the very best in the other person. They'll need to join forces and use all the know-how, kindness, and bravery they have in order to defeat their greatest foe yet: a jealous sorceress with a dire grudge against Sadie. Join Sadie...
Author
Publisher
Random House
Publication Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
318 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"This indelible romance begins with a daring conceit--that the author's grandfather may have had an affair with Lucille Ball. Strauss offers a fresh view of a celebrity America loved more than any other. Lucille Ball--the most powerful woman in the history of Hollywood--starred in America's first big-time interracial marriage. She owned more movie sets than did any movie studio. And she more or less single-handedly created the modern TV business....
Author
Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Publication Date
2017.
Physical Desc
337 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"9 March 1876 My name is Meggie Kelly and I take up this pencil with my twin sister, Susie. We have nothing left, less than nothing. The village of our People has been destroyed. Empty of human feeling, half-dead ourselves, all that remains of us intact are hearts turned to stone. We curse the U.S. government, we curse the Army, we curse the savagery of mankind, white and Indian alike. We curse God in his heaven. Do not underestimate the power of...
16) Saga: #7
Author
Publisher
Image Comics
Publication Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"From the worldwide bestselling team of Fiona Staples and Brian K. Vaughan, 'The war for Phang' is an epic, self-contained Saga event. Finally reunited with her ever-expanding family, Hazel travels to a war-torn comet that Wreath and Landfall have been battling over for ages. New friendships are forged and others are lost forever in this action-packed volume about families, combat and the refugee experience."--Back cover.
Author
Publisher
Lawrence Hill Books
Publication Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xiii, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Fearful of violating Indiana's anti-miscegenation laws in the 1940s, E. Dolores Johnson's black father and white mother fled Indianapolis to secretly marry. Johnson searched her father's black genealogy and then was amazed to suddenly realize that her mother's whole white side was missing in family history. Johnson went searching for the white family who did not know she existed. When she found them, it's not just their shock and her mother's shame...
Author
Publisher
Kokila
Publication Date
2021.
Physical Desc
380 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
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Description
Middle schooler Ariel Goldberg must find her own voice and define her own beliefs after her big sister elopes with a young man from India following the Supreme Court decision that strikes down laws banning interracial marriage.
Author
Language
English
Description
An Indian request in 1854 for 1,000 white brides to ensure peace is secretly approved by the U.S. government in this alternate-history novel. Their journey west is described by May Dodd, a high-society woman released from an asylum where she was incarcerated by her family for an affair.
20) Saga: #2
Author
Publisher
Image Comics, Inc
Publication Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 volume (unpaged) : chiefly color illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"Thanks to her star-crossed parents Marko and Alana, newborn baby Hazel has already survived lethal assassins, rampaging armies, and alien monstrosities, but in the cold vastness of outer space, the little girl encounters her family's greatest challenge yet: the grandparents. Collects SAGA #7-12"--Publisher's website.









