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The series features Jane Whitefield, a Native American (Seneca [1]) who has made a career out of helping people disappear. The series is usually narrated in third-person perspective. Perry weaves Native American history, stories, theology, and cultural practices into each novel. [2] [3]
Caucasia (1998) is the first novel written by American author Danzy Senna.It is the coming-of-age story of two multiracial girls, Birdie Lee and her sister Cole, who have a Caucasian mother and an African-American father.
Graham's books centralize on African-American social class. The Senator and the Socialite: The True Story of America's First Black Dynasty (2006) [ 29 ] – This is the true story of America's first black dynasty and follows three generations of a family that rose from slavery to the U.S. Senate.
“Holling was an American writer and illustrator active in the mid-20th century who wrote a number of children’s books, most famously Paddle-To-The-Sea (1941). All of Holling’s stories centre ...
My America, a series of fictional diaries of young children during American history; The Royal Diaries, a series of fictional journals about the teenage years of famous royal women throughout world history. Most of the "America" or "Royal" diaries are women and girls experiences. In addition, several of Scholastic's international divisions have ...
North America's Forgotten Past (occasionally called "First North Americans") is a series of historical fiction novels published by Tor and written by husband and wife co-authors W. Michael Gear and Kathleen O'Neal Gear. The series, which began with 1990's People of the Wolf, explores various civilizations and cultures in prehistoric North America.
Mary Jemison (Deh-he-wä-nis) (1743 – September 19, 1833) was a Scots-Irish colonial frontierswoman in Pennsylvania and New York, who became known as the "White Woman of the Genesee." As a young girl, she was captured and adopted into a Seneca family, assimilating to their culture, marrying two Native American men in succession, and having ...
The Caucasian race (also Caucasoid, [a] Europid, or Europoid) [2] is an obsolete racial classification of humans based on a now-disproven theory of biological race. [3] [4] [5] The Caucasian race was historically regarded as a biological taxon which, depending on which of the historical race classifications was being used, usually included ancient and modern populations from all or parts of ...