by Lise Funderburg | Nov 18, 2013 | Word Up
Here’s an excerpt from Jeffrey Scales’ original interview in Black, White, Other: Biracial Americans Talk About Race and Identity, first published in 1994 (and now available in a 20th anniversary expanded ebook edition): “I like elements of white culture a lot:...
by Lise Funderburg | Nov 13, 2013 | Word Up
Here’s an excerpt from Larene LaSonde’s original interview in Black, White, Other: Biracial Americans Talk About Race and Identity, first published in 1994 (and now available in a 20th anniversary expanded ebook edition): “I choose to call myself mulatto....
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...
