Movies:
- Constellation
- Mona Lisa (with Bob Hoskins)
- Choose Me
- The Crying Game
- Bitter/Sweet
- Star Trek (the 2010/2011 reboot)
- Something New
- Haven
- Island in the Sun (back when Harry Belafonte was in his prime)
- West Side Story
- Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner
- The Landlord
- La Bamba
- Jungle Fever (even though I personally don’t care for the movie’s lack of narrative flow)
- Mississippi Masala
- The Joy Luck Club
- Cafe Au Lait
- The Watermelon Woman
- Zebra Head
- Chutney Popcorn
- The Wedding Banquet
- Brother to Brother
- Fools Rush In
- Mr. and Mrs. Loving
- Chasing Shakespeare (http://blogs.indiewire.com/shadowandact/archives/danny_glover_co-starring_in_interracial_romance_flick_chasing_shakespeare/)
TV:
- Star Trek (you can’t beat Captain Kirk for his love of Uhuru, and the episode where he literally jumped on the green-skinned woman, and the Kirk/Spock bond)
- Chico and the Man
- Fame (corny, but a truly multicultural cast)
- Flash Forward (deadpan Fiennes has all the acting ability of a shovel, but what set the show off was the love affair between the Chinese FBI agent and his African American wife)
Websites and Blogs:
- “Let a Black Girl Show You the World” – http://kiratianatravels.com
- Sister Oneika’s travel blog – http://oneika-the-traveller.blogspot.com/
- Imported Chocolate travel blog –http://importedchocolate.wordpress.com/
- Black Girls Rock! – http://blackgirlsrockinc.com/live/
- http://www.blackgirltravel.com/pages/home.html
- http://blog.blackwomenineurope.com/
- http://blackwomenlivingwell.wordpress.com/
- http://www.beyondblackandwhite.com
People:
- Sanaa Lathan (only when she’s in interracial love stories like “Something New”)
- Lenny Kravitz (I mean, come on! Who doesn’t like Lenny?)
- Rae Dawn Chong (whatever happened to her, anyway?)
- Zoe Saldana (only when she’s in an actually good movie)
- Thandie Newton (only when she’s playing goofy women)
- Whoopi Goldberg (only when she’s in a movie)
- Naomi Campbell (only when she’s not talking)
- Alice Walker (forever)
- Tina Turner (under any conditions)
- Rita Dove (forever)
- Queen Latifah (only when she’s not in a commercial)
- The Williams Sisters, Venus and Serena (all the time)
Books:
- Love in Black and White: The Triumph of Love over Prejudice and Taboo, by Mark and Gail Mathabane -http://www.amazon.com/Love-Black-White-Triumph-Prejudice/dp/0060923717/ref=sr_1_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1313953329&sr=1-2
- Kissing Outside the Lines: A True Story of Love and Race and Happily Ever After – http://www.amazon.com/Kissing-Outside-Lines-Story-Happily/dp/1580053904
- Love in Black and White: A Memoir of Race, Religion, and Romance by William S. Cohen and Janet Langhart Cohen (Dec 28, 2006) – http://www.amazon.com/Love-Black-White-Religion-Romance/dp/0742558215/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1313953329&sr=1-1
- Why Black Men Love White Women, by Rajen Persaud – http://www.amazon.com/Why-Black-Love-White-Women/dp/1416595422/ref=sr_1_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1313953329&sr=1-4
- Interracial Marriages Between Black Women and White Men, by Cheryl Y. Judice – http://www.amazon.com/Interracial-Marriages-Between-Black-Women/dp/1604975776/ref=pd_sim_sbs_b_3
- Dont’ Bring a White Boy: And Other Notions that Keep Black Women from Dating Out, by Karyn Langhorne Folan -http://www.amazon.com/Dont-Bring-Home-White-Boy/dp/B004JZWK8C/ref=pd_sim_b_2
- Sell Out by James W. Lewis (currently being read for review)
- Is Marriage for White People?: How the African American Marriage Decline Affects Everyone (http://www.amazon.com/dp/0525952012/)
Blogs:
- http://multiracialkids.livejournal.com
- http://www.blackfemaleinterracialmarriage.com
- http://blackwomenwhitemen.wordpress.com/
- http://diaryofablackandwhitefamily.blogspot.com/
- http://blackandyellowambw.wordpress.com/
- http://blackwomanasianman.com/
- Southeast Wis Ingenerational-Interracial Community Connections http://sewiicc.wordpress.com
- http://www.racialicious.com/
- http://thelinkbetween.wordpress.com/
Organizations:
- the National Multicultural Institute: http://www.nmci.org/
- “A national multi-ethnic organization that challenges society’s notions of race….” http://www.swirlinc.org/
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