This post was originally published on Medium.
A sampling of some of the books, articles, music, and films that helped inform the creation of my new podcast, Other: Mixed Race in America
Before I started conducting interviews for my new podcast, Other: Mixed Race in America, I took a few months to try and read everything I could find about mixed race theory. Every article I found would lead to another book, another facet of the discussion.
In the interest of transparency, I thought it would be fun to share my media consumption list over the last year with you all.
Books
Collections/anthologies/nonfiction
Black, White, Other: Biracial Americans Talk About Race and Identity — Lise Funderburg
Half and Half: Writers on Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural — edited by Claudine Chiawei O’Hearn
Mixed: An Anthology of Short Fiction on the Multiracial Experience —Chandra Prasad
‘Mixed Race’ Studies: A Reader — edited by Jayne O. Ifekwunigwe
The Face: A Time Code — Ruth Ozeki
Covering: The Hidden Assault on Our Civil Rights — Kenji Yoshino
Hapa Japan Volume 1: History — edited by Duncan Ryuken Williams
Hapa Japan Volume 2: Identities and Representations — edited by Duncan Ryuken Williams
Fiction
The Quadroons — Lydia Maria Child
Slavery’s Pleasant Homes — Lydia Maria Child
Passing — Nella Larsen
Edinburgh — Alexander Chee
The Gilded Years — Karin Tanabe
Caucasia — Danzy Senna
The Girl Who Fell from the Sky — Heidi Durrow
Everything I Never Told You — Celeste Ng
The Hostage’s Daughter: A Story of Family, Madness, and the Middle East — Sulome Anderson
A Tale for the Time Being — Ruth Ozeki
All Over Creation — Ruth Ozeki
My Year of Meats — Ruth Ozeki
On Beauty — Zadie Smith
Articles/Essays
The Tragic Mulatto Myth — Dr. David Pilgrim
Learning why we don’t always mix: A Q&A with Mindy Thompson Fullilove
The Changing Face of America — Lise Funderburg
When Are You White? — Lise Funderburg
Interrogating the Hyphen-Nation: Mixed Race Identities and Multicultural Policy — Minelle Mahtani
When Half is Whole: Learning from the Stories of Multiethnic Asian American Identities — Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu
A Narrative of Finding Home for Mixed Roots People: Telling “Our” Story — Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu
Addressing Issues of Biracial Asian Americans — Stephen Murphy-Shigematsu
Hypen-Nation — New York Times
Redefining Asian America: Cultural Politics, Aesthetics, and Social Networks of Independent Rock Musicians — Wendy Hsu
The untold stories of Japanese war brides — Kathryn Tolbert
Films/Videos
Ingrid Nilsen: Growing up in a mixed family
Your Best American Girl music video
Listenable (podcasts/music)
Women of the Hour season 2, episode 9: Sickness & Health