Black, White, Other: Biracial Americans Talk about Race and Identity

by Lise Funderburg

Book Overview

Lise Funderburg presents the lives and views of forty-six adult children of black-white unions. Topics include love and marriage, racism in the workplace, and bringing up children in a racially divided world.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0688118240
• ISBN13: 9780688118242
• Release Date: January 1994
• Publisher: William Morrow & Company
• Length: 391 Pages
• Weight: 1.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Thank God I'm not 'weird' after all !

Black White Other is a simple yet graciously objective read. It is written in such a simple style that it is like meeting a good friend for a coffee. It is a series of interviews with 70+ black/white biracial people of a great array of age, gender, and life experience.Although the subject mater, 'race' is often genralised, the people in this book are all approached as individuals in every way. With very different lives,personalities and opinions.For those of you that are of mixed race, you will find this book very comforting, there are many people that understand you. For those that aren't in our situation, don't be afraid to sit down listen to these voices, embrace the lesson and let it manifest in your life.

Excellent research and interesting individual stories!!

Funderburg does an excellent job of finding biracial people and asking questions that help them to explain their understanding of race and how it was formulated. My husband and I plan to have children and I have reseacher biracial children and identity for the past two years. Black, White,Other helped to answer a lot of the questions that we have had and I have also share this information with other mixed couples. As licensed therapists this information will be passed on and used to help other biracial people and their parents through tough times. Some of the stories were sad and some made me mad because of the way the children were treated but I found this to be very helpful expecially with clients because life is not always happy-go-lucky Funderburg does an excellent job of saying this though real people's lives. It is an easy read.

Interesting, more negative prespectives than positive.

The book was filled with people from every walk of life and every age. Having a biracial black and white marriage and raising biracial children, I found the book helpful in reading about other experiences; however many of those experinces were negative compared to our family's.I would have liked to have read about more positive experiences. It is a great book for people who would like to know first hand about being black and white in our American culture.

Helpful as a white mother of a biracial child

I bought this book for my biracial young adult daughter. She has been going through some tough times trying to figure out who she is. She has been raised in a white family and has always been perceived as black by society. This book gave us both some insight into her feelings and confusion.

This book provides mulattos with hard-to-come-by comfort.

After reading "Black, White, Other", you are left feeling deeply moved and comforted. Being 18, and mixed, I appreciated the expereinces after going through my own identity crisis. While reading this book you learn about the differnces that make the world go round - you are left feeling comforted because finally you found others you can relate to as a biracial person. I keep my copy on my night stand at all times - just in case I need some encouragement!