Books tagged: race relations

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Babcock    by Joe Cottonwood
Price: $0.99 USD. 58890 words. Published on September 14, 2009. .

The award-winning novel about a boy and a girl, one white and one black, and the boy's con-man uncle starting a new life in a small town. “Full of humor, hope, and bravery. Richly drawn, fast paced, enticing, and downright witty. . . Sure to be a hit."—School Library Journal. "You will laugh out loud."—Pick of the List
Black Not Blind    by Bryant K. Smith
Price: $5.95 USD. 21500 words. Published on January 5, 2010. .

Have you ever gotten mad to the point that you thought about killing the source of your aggravation? Are you familiar with the notion of being called an "angry Black man?" Have you ever had a desire to stand up in a crowded room (perhaps at school or work) and yelling, "I see what you are trying to do, I am Black not blind!" This book chronicles what it is like to be a Black man in the new south.
Reparation Anxiety    by James Lewis
Price: Free! 4460 words. Published on July 26, 2010. .

Some people believe African-Americans should receive reparations for 400 years of unpaid labor and crimes against humanity because of slavery. But it's not that simple. It takes a seventeen-year-old high school kid to show two adults why those 40 acres and a mule may never come.
The All Nations Team    by Michael Jasper
Price: $7.99 USD. 103260 words. Published on September 3, 2010. .

The All Nations Team tells the story of the first fully integrated, "post-racial" baseball team, very loosely based on an actual team that played in the years before World War I. Haunted by the ghost of their white, former head coach, George must hold the All Nations together, or he'll miss his chance to reunite with his estranged family. If he doesn't score this final run, he loses everything.
The Bad, The Good and Two Fly Fishing Women    by Randy Kadish
Price: $0.99 USD. 11800 words. Published on December 11, 2010. .

When Amanda's mother deserts her to be with a new man, Amanda is hurt. She loses faith in the world, especially when her loving grandmother is diagnosed with cancer. Amanda struggles to find answers, and then on the banks of the Junction River she, along with Shana, her adopted dog, and Vernon, a grieving alcoholic, experience an unexpected, terrifying event that helps her learn to forgive.
The Harvest of Reason    by Rhea Harmsen
Price: $6.99 USD. 107370 words. Published on January 3, 2011. .

African American Ph.D. student Maddie Hawkins loves science, but the world of academia is a minefield of sexism, racism and egoism. Blue-eyed graduate student John Pitts is a cocky genius, an individualist and a lady’s man; everything Maddie disapproves of. Yet the heart leads you where reason would forbid, "and when the fire of love is ablaze" it burns "to ashes the harvest of reason."
Insidious Heart    by Haywood Stubble
Price: $4.95 USD. 74080 words. Published on March 24, 2011. .

Teej and Lowanda have a problem: he's white and she's black. Their fathers are both prejudiced, and for very different reasons. What influences on a person's life make him want to hate to such a degree? Can the person change? Is it a matter of choices that he must make to change?
The Interracial Dating Book For Black Women Who Want To Date White Men    by Adam White
Price: $2.99 USD. 94380 words. Published on April 2, 2011. .

How Black Women Can Start Dating White Men
Impressing the Whites: The New International Slavery    by Richard Crasta
Price: $7.99 USD. 59700 words. Published on April 9, 2011. .

Salman Rushdie, Barack Obama, Arundhati Roy, Ralph Ellison, Richard Wright, and James Baldwin are among those who star in this discussion of international racial politics and the Commandments that non-white people must live by to get along and be successful. Satirical, witty, and provocative, this book probes the Secret Rules that even Obama must obey.
The Building Of Joe    by Edward Maurer
Price: $2.99 USD. 35390 words. Published on July 1, 2011. .

Unwanted by his mother, abandoned by his father, unappreciated by his boss and loathed by his senator, meet Joe Johnson; he happens to be on a mission from God.