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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
When a crocodile eats the sun When a crocodile eats the sun Peter Godwin After his father's heart attack in 1984, Peter Godwin began a series of pilgrimages back to Zimbabwe, the land of his birth, from Manhattan, where he now lives. On these frequent visits to check on h… OL16027174W
Indian work Indian work Daniel H. Usner 202 pages : 25 cm OL1888712W
Honky Honky Dalton Conley "This memoir is the coming-of-age story of a white boy growing up in a neighborhood of predominantly African American and Latino housing projects on New York's Lower East Side. Vividly evoking the de… OL1998365W
Awakening to equality Awakening to equality Karl E. Lutze "In 1945, Karl Lutze was a young white pastor assigned to an African American church in Muskogee, Oklahoma. His experiences ministering to black congregations there and, later, in Tulsa provide a uni… OL5839628W
Light, bright, and damned near white Light, bright, and damned near white Stephanie Rose Bird The election of America's first biracial president brings the question dramatically to the fore. What does it mean to be biracial or tri-racial in the United States today? Anthropologist Stephanie Bi… OL5853401W
Scraping by Scraping by Seth Rockman "Enslaved mariners, white seamstresses, Irish dockhands, free black domestic servants, and native-born street sweepers. All navigated the low-end labor market in post-revolutionary Baltimore. Seth Ro… OL5965190W