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Common Reading Library Research Guide:
West of Kabul by Tamim Ansary

Identity

Books

Berger, Rosemary and Rosanna Hill, eds. Cross-Cultural Marriage:  Identity and
Choice.  New York: Oxford International Publishers, 1998.
HQ 1031 .C79 1998

Funderburg, Lise.  Black, White, Other: Biracial Americans Talk About Race
and Identity.  New York: W. Morrow and Co., 1994.
HQ 777.9 .F86 1994

Half and Half: Writers on Growing Up Biracial and Bicultural. New York:
Pantheon Books, 1998.
HQ 777.9 .H34 1998

Kaeser, Gigi.  Of Many Colors: Portraits of Multiracial Families.  Amhurst:
University of Massachusetts, 1997.
HQ 1031 .K33 1997

Romero, Dugan.  Inter-Cultural Marriage: Promises and Pitfalls
HQ 1032 .R66 1988

Websites

About.com  "Intercultural Marriage and Family"
http://immigration.about.com/cs/marriagefamily/

Royal College of Physicians.  "Divorce or Separation of Parents: - The Impact
On Children and Adolescents"
http://www.rcpsych.ac.uk/info/mhgu/newmhgu15.htm

Additional sources on Identity can be found by using the following databases and using these suggested keywords:

CUNY+Web EBSCOhost
  - Academic Search Premier
LexisNexis Academic
  - Quick News Search
Racial identity Racial identity Racial identity
Bicultural Bicultural Bicultural
Biracial Biracial Biracial
Intermarriage Blended family Blended family
Multiethnic Intermarriage Intermarriage
Multiracial Multiethnic Multiethnic
Mixed race Multiracial Multiracial
Mixed and family Mixed race Mixed race
Identity Mixed family Mixed family
Religion and identity Identity Identity
Religious and conversion Creed and Identity Creed and Identity
Zealots Religion and identity Religion and identity
Fundamentalism Multiethnic and identity Multiethnic and identity
Tolerance Religious Conversion Religious Conversion
Orthodox Zealots Zealots
Separation and parents Fundamentalism Fundamentalism
  Tolerance Tolerance
  Orthodox Orthodox
  Separation of parents Separation of parents


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