The last five years have seen the publication of a number of nonfiction books that focus on the experience of being biracial in America. For example, James McBride's The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother focuses on one man's experience being born to a black father and a white Jewish mother, and the difficulties he faced growing up trying to figure out his identity, particularly with a mother who told her son, "Forget about being black.
You are a human being." Like Senna and the characters in Caucasia, McBride had to face the difficulty of being the son of a biracial couple.
There have also been a number of edited collections published on this same topic which look at a diversity of experiences. In Lisa Funderburg's Black, White, Other:.....
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