by Lise Funderburg | Oct 26, 2013 | Uncategorized
Black, White, Other received some unexpected love in 2012 when Drexel University chose Pig Candy: Taking My Father South, Taking My Father Home as its Freshman Summer Read. Not for nothing, Drexel’s campus overlaps (now more than ever) with Powelton Village, the...
by Lise Funderburg | Oct 12, 2013 | Word Up
For the new Black, White, Other: Biracial Americans Talk About Race and Identity eBook (just out this month), novelist Mat Johnson was kind enough to write a frank and beautiful foreword. Mat is the author of Pym and Incognegro, and you can read about more of his work...
by Lise Funderburg | Oct 11, 2013 | What Readers Say
“Black, White, Other strikes me, above all else, as a deeply civilizing text by taking a lot of otherness out of others. And it’s still the best book I know on this endlessly complicated and complex and increasingly central-to-the-lives-of-U.S.-citizens...
by Lise Funderburg | Oct 10, 2013 | What BWO Interviewees Say Now
Age: 63 Residence: Brooklyn, NY Occupation: Freelance children’s book packager and editorial consultant What was it like to look back at what you said in the book? It was very interesting to me because I think some things have stayed exactly the same and I would...
by Lise Funderburg | Oct 9, 2013 | What Readers Say
“I want to let you know how happy I am to hear about the e-book of Black, White, Other. I can’t tell you how wonderful it was to suddenly not feel so weird and alone all those years ago, and I’m happy that I’m going to be able to share it with...
