These links also are useful if discussing notions of identity with students. This link contains direct testimonials of significant issues involved in raising multi-racial children. This link points to a list of essays about racial self-identity, racial classification, and black and white relations. Students can see the twists and turns of American history through the history of the interracial family of June Cross . If your American history course has a unit on the African-American experience, you might want to offer students a glimpse into the complicated early history of blacks in America and contemporary attempts to unravel those experiences.
Russian history is astonishingly rich and complex.
This link provides a rich amount of material on how Africans have had a profound influence on Christian history, theology and iconography. They explore the problems black musicians and entertainers experienced in the 40's, 50's, and 60's. Additionally, this page provides a link to a fascinating interview detailing the mob's grip on Harlem during its heyday of famous nightclubs and the segregation of white and black show business during that era.