The following books and articles were used as research and/or inspiration.
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Harris-Perry, Melissa V. Sister Citizen: Shame, Stereotypes, and Black Women in America. Yale University Press, 2011.
Hurwin, Davida Wills. Freaks and Revelations. Little, Brown, 2009.
Irving, Debby. Waking Up White: And Finding Myself in the Story of Race. Elephant Room Press, 2014.
McIntosh, Peggy. “White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack,” Independent School 49, no. 2 (winter 1990): 31. Excerpted from “White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming to See Correspondences Through Work in Women’s Studies” (Working Paper 189, Wellesley Center for the Study of Women, 1988).
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Shipler, David K. A Country of Strangers: Blacks and Whites in America. Vintage Books, 1998.
Tatum, Beverly Daniel. Assimilation Blues: Black Families in White Communities: Who Succeeds and Why? Basic Books, 2000.
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About the Author
JODI PICOULT is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of twenty-five novels, including Leaving Time, The Storyteller, Lone Wolf, Sing You Home, House Rules, Handle with Care, Change of Heart, Nineteen Minutes, My Sister’s Keeper, and, with daughter Samantha van Leer, two young adult novels, Between the Lines and Off the Page. She lives in New Hampshire with her husband and three children.