About Scout:
- Name:Karen DeGroot Carter
- Location:Denver, Colorado
Mom to three children of mixed-race heritage, I’m an author who’s compelled to write about social concerns. While researching biracial issues for my first novel, ONE SISTER'S SONG (published by Pearl Street Publishing of Denver), I compiled an extensive....
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- KarenDeGrootCarter.com
- Karen Carter Communications
- The Know Something Project
- Imagine A Great Election
- Pearl Street Publishing
- Rin Photography: Erin Kellem
- Masthead Photo by Lisa Turay
- MAVIN Foundation
- Tolerance.org
- International Network of Education for Democracy, Human Rights and Tolerance
- Swirl: A Mixed Community
- Level Playing Field Institute
- New Demographic
- Elie Wiesel Foundation for Humanity
- Facing History and Ourselves
- World Water Day
- Global Campaign for Education: U.S. Chapter
- Constitutional Rights Foundation
- Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America
- KID Foundation SPD Network
- ACORN
- Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic
- Organization for the Support of Albania’s Abandoned Babies (OSAAB)
- The Angela Shelton Foundation
- The Global Fund for Women
- Women For Women International
- The Pendulum Foundation
- The National Autistic Society
- Avaaz.org
- International Medical Corps
- Central Asia Institute
- Family Violence Prevention Fund
- South Asian Americans Leading Together
- The unPrison Project
- Intermix
- Campus Awareness+Compliance Initiative (CACI)
- Generation Mix
- MoveOn.org
- Jerry Jazz Musician
- Civil Rights Movement Veterans
- Senator Barack Obama
- SaveDarfur.org
- Global Girlfriend
- The Amber Chand Collection
- Rebecca Walker
- Literary Mama
- The Council for Responsible Genetics
- Chandra Prasad
- KIVA.org
- Change.org
- SixDegrees.org
- Carolyn Howard-Johnson
- TheCommunity.com
- Imagine A Great Election
- James McBride
- SAME Café
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver
- Deborah Jiang Stein
- MixisLiving
- MultiLingual Living
- Marcia Alesan Dawkins, Ph.D.
- INCOGNITO: The Play
- Deborah Jiang Stein
- Urban Spectrum
- ColorLines Magazine
- Hyphen Magazine: Asian America Unabridged
- “Multiracial Children: Practical Suggestions for Parents and Teachers”
- “Racial Ambiguity, Educational Access, and Social Impact from the Classroom to the Ivory Tower”
- “Students Push for DREAM Act”
- “Health Inequalities in U.S. Kill 84,000”
- British Medical Journal: “Left Behind: the Legacy of Hurricane Katrina”
- A Note from Bill Penzey
- “Swift Foot in Mouth of Prejudice”
- “Standing Up Forces Racists to Back Down”
- “Bill of Rights for Racially Mixed People”
- “Multiracial Oath of Social Responsibility”
- “50 Experiences of Racially Mixed People”
- “Talk to Kids About Prejudice”
- “Whiteness Class at CU Prompts Colorful Debate”
- “Black History Month: ‘A Double-Edged Sword’”
- “Black History Month: What’s Missing”
- “Flag Waving Banned at Colorado School”
- “Ban on U.S., Mexican Flags Spurs Protest at Skyline”
- “Overcoming Prejudice Takes Work”
- “Top Veteran Official Joins Pentacle Debate”
- “My Two Lives”
- “Welcome to Holland”
- “My White Father”
- “Common Threads: A Review of WEAVING A FAMILY: UNTANGLING RACE AND ADOPTION”
- “Girls as Targets”
- “Amish Mourn Gunman in School Rampage”
- “The Long War”
- “Is America too Racist for Barak? Too Sexist for Hillary?”
- “Barack Obama and the Springfield Race Riot”
- “Tuskegee Airmen”
- “Pale As I Am”
- “Impounded Fathers”
- “A New Generation Reinvents Philanthropy”
- The Elegant Variation Interview of author Lisa See
- “Hot Button Issue”
- “The Color of Love”
- “From the Tips of My Fingers to the Tips of My Toes”
- “The Fallacy of Colorblind Post-Raciality”
- “Obama’s Success Fuels Affirmative Action’s Foes”
- “So To Speak”
- “Against All Odds”
- “Meet Hansen Clarke: The Dems' Rising Star from Detroit”
- “Raised White, Mixed-Race Actor, Author Tells Story of Discovery”
- “The Perils of Indifference”
- “Loving for All”
- Think Progress
- The Colorblind Society
- Dis.course
- Simply Wait
- Sunflower Mom
- HYPHEN: Asian America Unabridged
- Empathy
- Have Fun * Do Good
- Kiko's House
- Angela Shelton
- Laila Lalami
- Blog for Change
- From Here to There and Back
- La Bloga
- Marla Baltes
- The Joy of Autism
- Maternal Instincts
- Find Out What Jen Finds
- HoopDeeDoo
- Adventures in Autism
- Kim Stagliano
- Sage and Thyme
- Full-Soul-Ahead
- Asperger Square 8
- Compassion In Juvenile Sentencing
- Welcome White Folks
- Mixed and Happy
- Mama C and the Boys
- Mutts Like Me
- This Nest
- My American Meltingpot
- STORIES OF STRENGTH: AN ANTHOLOGY FOR DISASTER RELIEF
- MIXED: AN ANTHOLOGY OF SHORT FICTION ON THE MULTIRACIAL EXPERIENCE
- A HAND TO GUIDE ME
- LOVE YOU TO PIECES: CREATIVE WRITERS ON RAISING A CHILD WITH SPECIAL NEEDS
- CALL ME OKAASAN: ADVENTURES IN MULTICULTURAL MOTHERING
- DOES ANYBODY ELSE LOOK LIKE ME?
- NIGHT
- ONE SURVIVOR REMEMBERS
- SHAME OF THE NATION
- Population Reference Bureau
- THE COLOR OF JUSTICE
- LIFE ON THE COLOR LINE
- WHAT ARE YOU? VOICES OF MIXED-RACE YOUNG PEOPLE
- THE MULTIRACIAL CHILD RESOURCE BOOK
- LOVE'S REVOLUTION: INTERRACIAL MARRIAGE
- RACIALLY MIXED PEOPLE IN AMERICA
- CHASING GHOSTS: A SOLDIER’S FIGHT FOR AMERICA FROM BAGHDAD TO WASHINGTON
- WHEN I CAME HOME
- RAISING BIRACIAL CHILDREN
- BEYOND BLACK: BIRACIAL IDENTITY IN AMERICA
- SENSATIONAL KIDS: HOPE AND HELP FOR CHILDREN WITH SENSORY PROCESSING DISORDER
- IT TAKES A NATION: HOW STRANGERS BECAME FAMILY IN THE WAKE OF HURRICANE KATRINA
- FLYING OVER 96TH STREET: MEMOIR OF AN EAST HARLEM WHITE BOY
- WEAVING A FAMILY: UNTANGLING RACE AND ADOPTION
- EYES ON THE PRIZE: AMERICA'S CIVIL RIGHTS MOVEMENT
- FADE: MY JOURNEYS IN MULTIRACIAL AMERICA
- MIXED: MY LIFE IN BLACK AND WHITE
- A LONG WAY GONE: MEMOIRS OF A BOY SOLDIER
- BLACK, WHITE, AND JEWISH
- A MIGHTY HEART
- BIRD BY BIRD: SOME INSTRUCTIONS ON WRITING AND LIFE
- SKY BURIAL: AN EPIC LOVE STORY OF TIBET
- NO PLACE SAFE
- WOMEN WHO LIGHT THE DARK
- SELLOUT
- BROTHER, I'M DYING
- SCHUYLER'S MONSTER: A FATHER'S JOURNEY WITH HIS WORDLESS DAUGHTER
- ROADMAP TO HOLLAND
- QUEEN OF THE ROAD
- THE COLOR OF WATER
- THREE CUPS OF TEA
- AGE AIN'T NOTHING BUT A NUMBER
- FROM MACACAS TO TURBAN TOPPERS: THE RISE IN XENOPHOBIC AND RACIST RHETORIC IN AMERICAN POLITICAL DISCOURSE
- INCOGNITO: AN AMERICAN ODYSSEY OF RACE AND SELF-DISCOVERY
- EVEN TOUGH GIRLS WEAR TUTUS
- AMOR AND EXILE: TRUE STORIES OF LOVE ACROSS AMERICA'S BORDERS
Fiction
- ONE SISTER'S SONG
- THIS IS THE PLACE
- THE KEEPERS OF THE HOUSE
- THE NAMESAKE
- HALF OF A YELLOW SUN
- ON BORROWED WINGS
- HOPE AND OTHER DANGEROUS PURSUITS
- THE KNOWN WORLD
- CANE RIVER
- RED RIVER
- RISE, DO NOT BE AFRAID
- ORANGE MINT AND HONEY
- CHILDREN OF THE WATERS
- THE ANNUNCIATION OF FRANCESCA DUNN
- SECRET SON
- MY SISTERS MADE OF LIGHT
Kids
- Gumbo Kids
- Real Kidz
- Multicultural Kids
- Kidlink Multicultural Calendar
- A PICTURE BOOK OF ROSA PARKS
- BLACK, WHITE, JUST RIGHT!
- MIXED ME: A TALE OF A GIRL WHO IS BOTH BLACK AND WHITE
- Alaafia Kids
- A PICTURE BOOK OF MARTIN LUTHER KING, JR.
- Just For Me
- SPOOKLEY THE SQUARE PUMPKIN
- Boys and Girls Clubs of America
- The Safe Side
- BENJAMIN AND THE WORD
- THE NEW BEAR ON THE BLOCK
Other Resources
- iCelebrateDiversity
- American Red Cross
- Melting Pot Gifts
- Adoption.com
- Curls
- ProGroup Inc.
- Diversity Calendar
- Loving Day
- Halfbreed Nation
- PHAMALy
- MOSAIC
- Give2TheTroops
- Letssaythanks.com
- Colorado Coalition Against Sexual Assault
- Free Hugs
Other Blogs I Enjoy
- Eudaemonia For All
- The Pajama Gardener
- Paris Parfait
- Reading Under The Covers
- The Writers' Group
- Making It Up
- On The Slow Train
- TwoBlueDay
- Not Afraid Of The F Word
- Random Acts Of Unkindness
- Nap-Time Writer
- Rebecca Burgess
- Like A Shark
- MIXED: MY LIFE IN BLACK AND WHITE
My Author Website
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Previous Posts:
- How to #ActNow
- Why I Didn't March Yesterday
- BEYOND FICTION: In Search of Diverse Fiction for G...
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- BEYOND Fiction: CALLING ME HOME by Julie Kibler......
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- Beyond FACTS: FIREBIRD by Mark Doty
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