Recs if you like Clotel: or, The President's Daughter...

Essential literature by African American authors that changed the world, but somehow none of us were expected to read in school. Note: Most of these are available for free from Project Gutenberg.

To understand the racial hierarchy in the United States, you have to understand the language Black and mixed race people have been using to describe it since the end of the American Civil War.

Reconstruction gave birth to "the Color Line" phrase. It describes the legal and social boundaries between Black and White and the entire racial hierarchy that exists between them in the United States.

An essential resource for the American mixed and multiracial experience.

My books are my babies, some are more precious than others If I give one to you, that means I think highly of you wink