Movies:
Daughter From Danang
A stunning documentary about the daughter of an American Service man
and a Vietnamese woman, adopted by an American family, who returns to
Vietnam 22 years later to find her biological family.
Robot
Stories
Hapa filmmaker Greg Pak's science-fiction anthology contains an
unforgettable commentary on the mixed-race experience.
Rocky Road
This is a film about interracial dating that has been described as a
must see for anyone who is either dating interracially or thinking
about it.
Books:
Dreams of My Father
by Barack Obama
Senator Obama's memoir of
growing up in Hawaii with his mother and her family after his father
returned to his home country.
Paper Bullets
by Kip Fullbeck
Acclaimed artist Kip Fullbeck
presents an "autobiographical novel" that deals with the racial and
sexual politics of his life experiences.
Part Asian: 100% Hapa
by Kip Fullbeck
This book, the culmination of Kip Fullbeck's "Hapa
Project," features over two hundred images of mixed race people, along
with statements by them answering the age old question "what are you?"
The Color of Water
by James McBridge
Author James McBride presents
the story of his mother, who raised twelve children almost alone, while
facing prejudice from people of almost every race.
Mark One or More: Civil Rights
in Multiracial America
by Kim Williams
The little-known story of the
struggle to include a multiracial category on the U.S. census, and the
profound changes it wrought in the American political landscape.
Mixed: An
Anthology of Short Fiction on the Multiracial Experience
edited by Chandra
Prasad
The short stories in Mixed
present vastly different themes and settings, but all
have in common characters from a mixed-race background. Contributors
include Danzy Senna, Cristina Garcia, Ruth Ozeki, Mat Johnson, Peter Ho
Davies, Diana Abu Jaber, and many other new and established authors.
Each story is preceded by a biographical statement about its author,
and is followed by a personal commentary that sheds light on the
story’s origin and mood. Rebecca Walker, the author of Black,
White, and Jewish: Autobiography of a Shifting Self, pens Mixed’s
illuminating introduction.
Black,
White and Jewish
by Rebecca Walker, daughter of Alice Walker
Rebecca Walker's story of trying and not really fitting in
with either culture as she was growing up.
They
Always Said I Would Marry a White Girl
by Robert Moore
For more information, visit
http://www.hamilton-books.com
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