He turned and looked after it, and on the slope he saw old Samuel against the sky, his white hair shining with starlight. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’s wearing a Foo Fighters T-shirt, pajama pants, and a pair of moccasins—total suburban white boy—but he’s so hot, I’d like him even if he wore a tattered garbage sack. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I pour on peroxide till the whole line bubbles white. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

There’s just enough light left in the sky to tell that it’s white. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Some whites did object to blacks taking seats “all over the car,” but it was rare for anyone to cause a fuss. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

My parents dead, and the green and white floor tiles beneath them. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

"Hardly any white people in this neighborhood," Starry says. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

His skin was albino white, his hair shoulder-length and jet black. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Wes would always say, “The only thing white about him is his skin. Everything else is black. He’s a real black dude.” The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

So much depends on a red wheelbarrow glazed with rain water standing beside the white chickens. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

For decades, black elites engaged in private rescue efforts to make black communities tidy, clean, and respectable in a futile effort to gain white approval. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

We concentrate on soaking Finnick’s arms first, since they have been so badly damaged, and even though a lot of white stuff pours out of them, he doesn’t notice. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

For a voice in Congress, if not a representative then a strong alliance with liberal-minded whites. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Chiron stood in full white stallion mode, his bow drawn. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

Captain Stewart’s face turned whiter as he went over to Peewee. Fallen Angels 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harlem by now was officially off limits to white servicemen. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

From blood red to snow white in about two seconds. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Bigger, pleasel Don’t say sir to me. ... I don’t like it. You’re a man just like I am; I’m no better than you. Maybe other white men like it. But I don’t. Look, Bigger. . . .” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The clouds separate in the sky and the sun shines beams of white light on our new home. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Just the white noise of the ambulance, one sister crying, and the other struggling to comfort her without words. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

The more Ophie thought about it, the harder it seemed to be colored, to have to think before doing anything, to wonder if the white folks looking at her meant her harm. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Perfect white snow-covered lawns, with manicured bushes and trimmed trees. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ferula excused herself for a moment and ran to the bathroom, one of those immense bathrooms where the toilet was placed in the middle of the room surrounded by a vast desert of white tiles. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A white rabbit hopped beside me, and for a moment I thought it was a blob of snow that had fallen out of the sky. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Apartheid,” I said, “thrived on the enmity and fear between black and white.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bear was skin and bones, like a lumpy white rug, lying on green grass with one paw lifted up in a kind of salute. The Thing About Jellyfish 2015-09-22T00:00:00Z

Their house was even more elaborate than I expected, a cheerful red and white Georgian Colonial mansion overlooking the bay. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

His face was whiter than any face she could remember. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I had the feeling that all of these well-dressed whites had X-ray vision and that I was going to be arrested at any moment. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He's holding out half a roll spread with the creamy white stuff and topped with apple slices. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

The white wolf ran from it, racing toward the cave of night where the sun had hidden, his breath frosting in the air. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“My favorite color is white,” I say, “because it is a mixture of all the colors.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Late one Saturday night I made some deliveries in a white neighborhood. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Alexandra was a farm originally named for the wife of the white man who owned it. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Back in the ward, he found his wife lying vanquished beneath the blankets like a desiccated old vegetable, wrinkled, dry and white, her enfeebled tissues absolutely still. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

If you can call it talking, these clipped whispers, projected through the funnels of our white wings. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were white traces on the back of his hair where he had not rubbed in the hair tonic. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We spent the rest of that night in a long white room. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

Despite the obvious benefits to some individuals from this arrangement, most blacks suffered under it, as black landlords, like their white counterparts, had an economic incentive in maintaining the status quo. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Ellen drew a flat loaf of white bread from the ashes of the fireplace and wrapped it in a clean cloth. Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

A two-wheeled cart went rumbling past them, pulled by a white dwarf elephant. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I tease him about it—about how in college all his white clothes will come out pink because he won’t remember to separate his wash. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He’s all black as usual and he’s sitting next to Bill Galvin, all white as usual, snuffling and taking great slugs out of his black pint. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

His famous mane of white hair was windswept from a morning of sailing on Long Island Sound. Bomb 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mayor Barry Trent stepped up to the podium, and he gripped both sides of it, hard enough that Moss could see the whites of his knuckles on his already pale skin. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Her own dress is carefully selected, off-the-rack J. Crew, white lace, girl-next-door. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

A gaudy yellow in a row of white bungalows. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The light of the half-moon and stars tinged the sands blue, purple, and silver instead of the daylight colors of orange, red, and white. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

Fred raises his fingertips to the brim of his cap, then smiles at me, showing off two rows of perfect white teeth and a dimple in his left cheek. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

He reached into the box and pulled out—I am not making this up—a perfect new white baseball. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

Many white students went out of their way to make me feel welcome. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

His suit was made of the whitest cloth she had ever seen. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It was a Benz, an unusual car in this neighborhood, blue with a thick white stripe bisecting the hood, the roof, and the trunk. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

“It was like life in the old days,” a white trader who accompanied them recalled. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

One of Mom’s books was open to a photograph of a white shark. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I hurried past the stone fence that surrounded the white graveyard, to the split-rail fence that marked our ground, and stopped outside the gate to pick a handful of chilly violets, wet with dew. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair was curled high and powdered snow white. Chains 2008-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew of course that there were poor whites, whites who were every bit as poor as Africans, but one rarely saw them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had salt-and-pepper hair, a white coat, and a smart face. Because of Mr. Terupt 2010-10-11T00:00:00Z

It was razor-etched, with slashing parallel white lines for each stroke of every letter. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

In return for a favor to some white mobster, my new boss and his wife had just been given a six- months numbers banking privilege for the Bronx railroad area called Motthaven Yards. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He runs his finger around the collar of his dim white shirt—he’s back to his old, well-worn brown suit. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

There were blue jays, which are very quarrelsome birds, and black-and- white peckers that pecked holes in the yucca stalks and the poles of my roof, even in the whale bones of the fence. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

I threw up into the sink, onto the counter, and then slid down to the floor, let the blue and white tiles cool my cheeks. The Miseducation of Cameron Post 2012-02-07T00:00:00Z

In return for his money, he received many privileges: he wore clothes meant for white prisoners, ate their diet, and did no jail work at all. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My brother used to shoot at a big white horse riden by a neighbor who went by our place on his way to town. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He, Boom Box, and the older kid with the fuzzy white Kangol cap stepped to the left, then slid-hopped and stepped to the right. Clayton Byrd Goes Underground 2017-05-09T00:00:00Z

There could be a whisper of Noise coming thru but there could also not be a whisper of Noise, what with the fire blazing and the wood popping and the white water below. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

Or maybe getting your period in the middle of gym when you’re wearing white shorts and the teacher is a man and you left all your sanitary napkins at home. The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

But at least I am no longer an outcast, as Pete would say, in this strange white state. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

Trueblood seemed to smile at me behind his eyes as he looked from the white man to me and continued. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Now you soak a while, child. When the water goes down the drain, it will take away all that white man’s evil with it.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

With a shock he saw Mr. Grin standing in the hallway, looking hideous with his white face, his ginger hair, and his mauve twisted smile. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

Let one stay around white people for a while and he’s not worth killing. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

“What are the bad ones, my friend ?” After a moment of quiet he pulls the bottom drawer and retrieves a folded green and white computer printout markered in Eduardo’s hand. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The iron would split it open with a wide gash, and blood would darken the white spot and make it the color of the man’s sunburned face. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Was the rest of her then that white and clean under all the dirt? The Midwife's Apprentice 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first white people I ever saw were those UN people at Pinyudu. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

On the desk, there was a sign with white letters that said MRS. Louisiana's Way Home 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

The whites of his moony eyes grew large and misty as his mouth struggled yearningly and lost against the familiar, impregnable loneliness drifting in around him again like suffocating fog. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

My uncle was the only one in our family who had ever been to the white man’s school. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had rabbits at school, in cages, fat, and white, with pink, vacant eyes. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

A tall, thin white boy whom Stella knew only as Kenneth leaned over and whispered to Thelma, “School together? Ha! We don’t go to school with them because we don’t have to.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

There’s nothing white folks hate more than realizing they accidentally treated a Negro like a person. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

She touched the white flower behind her ear, the one from her uncle, and wrapped me in a tight hug. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

She bought new kicks at Foot Locker just for the job, white Chucks that I may have to borrow from time to time when she’s not looking. Merci Suárez Changes Gears 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

The car finally stops before a white gate. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Along with other white supremacist groups, the Klan began murdering African American men, women, and children by setting fire to homes, bombing churches, and lynching blacks on a scale never before witnessed. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Wilder then turned to Sherman, who had given her clues in a different order: black and white, ice, waddle. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The cuts on her face line her cheeks and forehead: little parallel slashes, three together in each place, with clumps of white skin on the ends where they’re healing. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

The white racist is bewildered and angered by such an attitude, because the dignity of the Negro’s course of action emphasizes the indignity of his own. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gerald and Lydia are tanner, leaner, a bit scantily dressed, Lydia in a white tank top and a denim wrap skirt, Gerald in wrinkled blue shorts, a green polo shirt faded with use. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was a white figure, a man, with long wings behind him. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Thinking I’ve never had my hands on a white girl, even back in Lansing. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

I squeeze my phone so I don’t throw it against the wall painted with little white and brown kids holding hands underneath a rainbow. They Both Die at the End 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

We're both narrowly escaping collisions and are neck and neck in our race to catch up with the white van full of money. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

If a white man had sought to keep us from obtaining a job, or enjoying the rights of citizenship, we would have bowed silently to his power. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Well,” Grandpa said, “there’s supposed to be a white flag in the mouth of Black Fox. That’s where we leave the road. The camp is in the river bottoms.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Ah! Maybe it is your initiation to the white people’s world. Well, tell me all about it when you return. Stay inside if you have to.” A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Gwenforte acted as their scout, ghostly and white, leading them through the trees. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

It’s a small, old, white building with four tall columns and a row of stairs leading to a tall doorway. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m just doing my citizen’s duty to guarantee that white women are safe in our community.” Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Marco hooked an arm around my waist and jerked me up against his dazzling white suit. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Grandma always said Mrs. Wishart was a different sort of white lady. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The lobster cakes were hot and buttery, brown and crunchy on the outside, sweet and white on the inside. Beyond the Bright Sea 2017-05-02T00:00:00Z

The dogwood blossoms were poised, white and surreal and still against the darkening sky, the heavy air. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

There were evening dresses here, I caught the shimmer of silver over the top of the white bags that enfolded them. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

Some big white dude opened it and then stood there staring at me for a while. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

Each time I found myself back in the clinging white mist and my name just beyond my fingertips. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their hair was gray or white or blonde, too short or too long. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Gray smoke floats to the sky and white ashes fall on us like powder. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Finally, Lily stumbled into the kitchen in white jeans and a T-shirt, but her hair was a tangled mess. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

His legs were caked with snow to the knee, his head and shoulders shrouded in white. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Bailey and I had seen the books which showed how she had lent money to Blacks and whites alike during the Depression, and most still owed her. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A killer whale surfaced beside the ship, its black sides glistening and its white patches tinged a dirty yellow by algae. Shipwreck at the Bottom of the World 1998-11-17T00:00:00Z

But I was surprised to see white adults doing battle against children. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The facades had soaring white columns like Roman temples. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Then he gazed at the people gathered around him: liberals and conservatives, blacks and whites, men and women, middle-class and poor. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

They had taken up a collection and bought a white cake with chocolate icing that read success forever! Malala: The Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Changed the World 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

“So, what was it like, then, Luke?” she asked, countering my red-hot rant with a cool white calm. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

There was mist across Marsh Creek, ever whiter in the growing light. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Those mixed bloodlines were always lurking, waiting to peek out, and fear of losing their status kept white people in line. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The young mouse lay back upon the crisp white pillows. Redwall 1986-10-23T00:00:00Z

As his vision returned, he saw black sky and the white disc of the sun, which gave off little light and no heat. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

She wore a gown now, long and white like her daughter’s. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

A white man in a car had called out those words to him not long ago. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

After the white dances, when I helped to clean out the ballroom, we would throw out perhaps a dozen empty liquor bottles. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

An elderly, preternaturally tanned man—the mayor, somebody explains—waits with a white handkerchief in his big sailor’s hands, a barely perceptible shake showing in his wrists. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

A white man named John Smith Pleasants inherited Mourning and her husband, George, from his father, one of the first slaveholders in Clover. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It begins with a disturbance off the port bow; a patch of bubbling white water marking something beneath the surface. Challenger Deep 2015-04-15T00:00:00Z

His new white trainers support his bad foot and help him walk straighter. Without Refuge 2018-04-01T00:00:00Z

There were no windows, so to give an illusion of light and space one wall was covered in a huge photogram showing a tropical beach, with bright blue sky and white sand and coconut palms. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

And I knew that any American white man with a genuine brotherhood for a black man was hard to find, no matter how much he grinned. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Wisps of pale fog drifted through the night, long white fingers off the river. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But the white man had lighted his cigarette and smiled and seemed to want to be with him. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“If you want me to stop playing tennis with whites, I’ll do so right this minute.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was about twenty feet tall and extremely muscular, with a flowing white beard, scraggly hair, and a wild look in his eyes, like a crazy hermit. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

Humperdinck jumped from ship to shore, a plank was lowered, and the whites were led to ground. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The big white flakes wafted through them, dreamy and soft. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

For the first time ever I felt a stirring of anger against my father for making me a white preacher’s child from Georgia. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Somewhere in the distance was the lair of the white witch, cold radiating out from it like heat from a fire. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Apart from the white man we had first seen—who owned the tannery and lived by himself—there were some nine or ten Muslims under him. Nectar in a Sieve 1954-01-01T00:00:00Z

They left Mr. Binks after he got caught up at the white socks table buying twenty pairs of socks, Genie guessed for when he got his skates. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

In recent years, two violent events have brought attention to the white supremacists and their goals. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

His best suit was covered in white dust, which had settled in his hair and mustache and made him look as though he had just aged thirty years. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

C. P. Ellis experienced a similar moment of awakening, when he first realized that he was white. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The shelling kept on as we approached the shore, visible in the growing fight as a white fine of tide. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandeur she gave her, too, in height and form, and made her whiter than carved ivory. The Odyssey 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

For comfort, I tried to cradle Quixote, our gray and white cat who was missing an ear, but he growled and scratched at my face. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

If his teeth were any whiter he could’ve blinded us without the sun car. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t understand whites and where they got the right to spend money so lavishly. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

That first morning at the firm, a pleasant young white secretary, Miss Lieberman, took me aside and said, “Nelson, we have no color bar here at the law firm.” Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

In her black skirt, ironed white shirt, and black apron, Mom is the happiest I’ve seen her in a very long time. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

But from colonial times through the days of apartheid, black people in South Africa were required to have an English or European name as well—a name that white people could pronounce, basically. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

This white space in art is equivalent to silence in music. Music and the Child 2016-06-14T00:00:00Z

Gideon spoke calmly to the man, as if nothing were unusual at all; at the same time he folded Sergio’s brand-new, perfectly white tee into a square and pressed it to the guy’s bloody head. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

“Remember what Papa used to say, ‘Behind a white cloud, a bird looks like an angel.’” Krik? Krak! 2015-12-15T00:00:00Z

Then she gathers up the tufts of white hair that are stuck in the teeth of her wooden comb. Dragons in a Bag 2018-10-23T00:00:00Z

The saintly mood lasts until I refill the milk glass of a tiny, scabrous old lady with wild white hair who looks like she’s been folded into her wheelchair and squished. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

And here’s to all the white friends who get it. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

All along the white beach, up and down, there was no living thing in sight A bird with a broken wing was beating the air above, reeling, fluttering, circling disabled down, down to the water. The Awakening 1899-01-01T00:00:00Z

Already it seems a long time since her husband walked on water in his white summer suit and Panama hat. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you are primed with a black face first, you’ll identify the gun as a gun a little more quickly than if you are primed with a white face first. Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

He was charming and urbane with visitors, and stopped just short of fawning on them if they happened to be white. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Indeed, the notion of racial difference—specifically the notion of white supremacy—proved far more durable than the institution that gave birth to it. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The hard shell hits my head with a bang, as a flash of white pain explodes in my skull. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

"I'd have to put David higher on the totem pole than other white boys." Miracle's Boys 2000-04-23T00:00:00Z

It’s just what white guys want to hear. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you could look long enough, you would see the swirling of the great drifts of white cloud, covering and uncovering the half-hidden masses of land. The Lives of a Cell 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They held long white rosaries with enormous silver crosses. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Her underthings hung heavily on her slim frame, a stained white shift dripping ghostly water onto the floorboards of the trolley. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Peeta and I tried to ration what white liquor we had, but it’s almost run out, and the last time I saw Ripper, she was in the stocks. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Their knuckles were white on the sides of the chariot, their teeth chattering like windup Halloween skulls. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

“Did that material contain a plea for ‘unity of whites and blacks’?” Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

He leaped over an upended chair and raced around the wreckage as the top of her head appeared—dark hair that looked as if it had been sprayed by gray and white paint. Time Bomb 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

Mr. Dare was dressed in a white linen suit. The Last Olympian 2009-05-05T00:00:00Z

Half a mile downstream, Lord Nugent’s boat slammed into the landing at the foot of a great lawn leading up to a white building in the classical style. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

I did as Big Ma had told me in our many talks on how to act around white people. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He breathed deeply, trying to find a trace of the locust-blossom perfume, but all he smelled was the white clay plaster, as timeless as the cliffs where it came from. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

On the right, winter-slumbering gardens were partly obscured behind a low wall; within the garden, across wide lawns of short brown grasses, was a wide tower made of white stone. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

The man in the white coat bent down and looked closely into Winston’s eyes, felt his pulse, laid an ear against his chest, tapped here and there; then he nodded to O’Brien. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

“Never mind, you’ve got the tarlaton for the big party, and you always look like an angel in white,” said Amy, brooding over the little store of finery in which her soul delighted. Little Women 1868-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a glow of white, a steady movement: something coming up with the tide. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

The next morning, at six A.M., they slogged through mud to the transit camp mess hall and ate canned figs and white bread from pie tins and drank coffee out of tin cups. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

The government continued reassuring whites that the situation in the ghettos was under control, that it was only a matter of time before complete order was restored. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Segregation today! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation forever!” he had promised the white people of Alabama earlier that January. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She's easy to spot; the audience in this school is mostly white. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

In the foreground four solemn men in dress suits are walking along the sidewalk with a stretcher on which lies a drunken woman in a white evening dress. The Great Gatsby 1925-04-10T00:00:00Z

My mother dragged me outside toward the rear of the building, out of sight of the white man. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The corpse's cloak was grey wool trimmed with white satin, she saw with sudden terror. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Both the mayor and the constable turned tail and ran, their eyes white and wild as startled horses’. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

And so did just about everybody who lived in Cold Sassy, white and colored. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

She remembered, for one fleeting moment, a hunt dressed all in white; a garden of lushly blooming roses; Sidhean beside her. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man who had made them had now destroyed them, erased them like mistakes in a drawing, like marks on white paper. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

The front of the courthouse was red brick with great white marble steps going up to a wide door. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Yes; he had to wipe out that lie, not only so that they might know the truth, but to redeem himself in the eyes of those white faces behind his back along the white wall. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I fold the note in half and stick it between the stem and the white cotton-looking plant they stuck in with the rose. Boy21 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bits of gray, green, and yellow roll in the burping white paste. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

Every statue wore a tall white cap and every marble nose was tipped with a horn like that of a rhinoceros. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

Gates told Lyon and her friend to give their seats to whites and move to the back of the bus. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I became friends with a girl named Mabel, a white girl who was intelligent and tried valiantly to speak with me, even though I still knew little English. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She pushed her knees out straight before her and let the folds of her white muslin dress and the familiar, endearing, pucker of skin about her knees fill her view. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

“Like, you can figure out from half an hour of watching the news that there’s more opportunity for white people. And for people who speak English.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

There were little white things falling out of the sky, and they seemed to be accumulating on the ground. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Adults were looking down at her: the man who’d brought her in, another man wearing a white coat, a woman in a nurse’s uniform. The Golden Compass 1995-07-01T00:00:00Z

The day Gram gave me the claddagh I was sitting on her bed, tracing the nubby white bedspread like Braille under my fingers, watching her get ready for church. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Of course, the odds that he would have been convicted of drug possession would have been extremely low if he were white. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Doha missed eating plain white rice, but he knew of so many who had so much less. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

“Did you read about the white shark on Cape Cod?” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

All my life, I had followed the code that told me to never show up a white man. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

It fell to the floor like a white flower petal. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

But the brownish-black line on the white stone didn’t look like the vivid bursting sky at all. Orphan Island 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Staining my white blouse with my spit-out juice makes me feel like the grossest person in the world. Lucky Broken Girl 2017-04-11T00:00:00Z

She bought a white blouse next and a nightgown—fawn trimmed in sea foam. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

One day, in 1849, when Harriet was working in the fields, near the edge of the road, a white woman wearing a faded sunbonnet went past, driving a wagon. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

She began to say “red, white, and blue” instead of “blue, white, and red” and to distinguish “interest” from “interested” from “interesting.” Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Fifty years later he wore the same thick glasses, I’d never seen a whiter shirt, he had a hard time letting go of books, I went up to him. Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

Billy Preston played a few numbers, and behind him was my dad, a long-haired skinny white hippie playing his horn. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

He looked young, not over twenty, and I wondered how he had es-caped the habit of guarded fencing that goes on constantly between whites and Negroes in the South wherever they meet. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the men wore baggy short-sleeved white shirts, a few had on ties. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Now I was wondering just how the long fluffy white curtains would look if I lit a bunch of straws and held it under them. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

When Ophie had begged him to stay, he’d taken the arm of a pretty white lady and walked away, his hat at a jaunty angle. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Penniless whites took over the rows from penniless blacks, except at the end of the week the whites were no longer penniless. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

We often went to Mobimbi to swim in a pool and watch the huge color television and the white people who crowded the visitors’ recreational area. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

She lets the curtain fall once he has entered, leaving them enclosed in darkness studded with dimly sparkling lights, the glowing tip of her cigarette the one spot of color amongst the dots of white. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

There is no question that the historic civil rights movement of the 1950s and 1960s owed its existence to the summer of 1919, when organized black resistance to white abuse first became a reality. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

An American white ambassador in one African country was Africa’s most respected American ambassador: I’m glad to say that this was told to me by one ranking African leader. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m getting the white liquor because a few weeks ago he ran out and there was none for sale and he had a withdrawal, shaking and screaming at terrifying things only he could see. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

But you are the only white man I have ever encountered who realizes this terrible need of my people. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I remember an old lady, grinning and saying to my father, “You’re scaring these white folks to death!” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I remember one really peculiar case of this—a white girl who never missed a single night in the Savoy Ballroom. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A white guy, who I could tell was thinking about those names too. All American Boys 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

Even with her clipboard and white coat, she looks like she should be in Vogue or something. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

About ten hours into the wake, a white guy stood. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Armstrong’s lawyers found it puzzling that no whites had been charged with crack offenses, given that most crack users are white. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

It gives me a twinge of sadness, of missing my mother, to see their colorful petticoats—indigo blue and saffron yellow—and white coifs. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

My hands hadn’t stopped shaking from earlier, and every time I tried shutting my eyes all I could see were the white coat’s blank ones staring right back into mine. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Just white scabby dust on the tops of their feet, and all of them with those dark black sores and scars. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Meantime, on the opposite tracks, trains for white people passed by, almost empty except for an occasional passenger relaxing on one of the cushioned seats, feet hung on the opposite, unoccupied seat. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ahead of them a sloping lawn rose directly out of the floodwater and led smoothly up to the white facade of the house, the columns and the pediment. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

The falling snow had masked the boar’s scent, but now the white wolf had the smell. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In the living room, I flip on the iron, yank Mister Johnny’s white shirt out of the basket. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

They gave off a pungent smell, like meat gone to rot, and were filled with white pools. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

While most of the children in the store, both black and white, scraped for pennies in their pockets, Paulette pulled out two crisp dollar bills and bought three large bags of candy. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

My mom’s knuckles are white from gripping the steering wheel. The Benefits of Being an Octopus 2018-09-04T00:00:00Z

Miss Celia takes to the week of warm weather, though, and actually goes outside and sits by the pool in these tacky white sunglasses and a fuzzy bathrobe. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I knowed there was only one reason they’d let the white children and the Indian children leave without no one watching ’em. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

No white strands grow in her partner’s mustache. Jazz 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

The table was set with white linen and china. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

Perhaps if Obiora had not said, “Uncle Eugene,” I would not have known that it was Papa, that the tall stranger in the well-tailored white tunic was Papa. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

Yet we had read in the paper that the white activist Patrick Duncan had become a member of the PAC executive. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Halfway through this corridor three white men stood talking together and blocked the way. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I even recognized her dress—navy with a prim white collar and cuffs, buttoned tightly. The Old Willis Place 2004-09-20T00:00:00Z

Against that harsh line where darkness began, Lazlo caught a glimpse of the white bird, wheeling and tilting. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

The door behind me is white and closed, with the metal number on it showing: 9. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Mr. Kazilly is wearing a sharply creased white shirt, a red velvet vest, and maroon slacks. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

The tiny white coffin was set on a table. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

His lips pulled back, revealing his gleaming white teeth. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

He stared at the calendar for a long time; the horse’s mane was bleached white, and there was no trace of dust on its coat. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, the big white cat bounded down the steps and leaped with one movement upon Bigger’s shoulder and sat perched there. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The white part of its back, which they had glimpsed through the grass, was in fact only the shoulders and neck. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

The orange go first, then the yellow, then the red and finally blue, the uppermost piece slightly bent under the white speckled ceiling. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

He wears a white apron like a butcher and his face looks like a raw piece of meat, pinkish and maybe angry. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

My mother in a long white coat and hat, and my father in a T-shirt and jeans. Harbor Me 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

I saw that the white faces were the faces of white men and they were dressed in ordinary clothing; but the black faces were men wearing what seemed to me to be elephant’s clothing. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

I was sitting at a perfect piano, it turned out, with its surfaces carefully dusted, its internal wires precisely tuned, its eighty-eight keys laid out in a flawless ribbon of black and white. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

Her husband emerges from the light and comes toward her, taller than the palms, walking on water in his white summer suit and Panama hat. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I use the rest of my dog-walking money to buy a couple of gallons of the blue paint, as well as a gallon of white paint, and several paint rollers and trays. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

I rushed into the shiny white kitchen and escaped to the back porch. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

I began leaving two white paper napkins by him every time I served him more coffee, and the rose worked when he sometimes scribbled on the napkins, which I retrieved when he left. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was dressed in fine clothes—white shirt, black trousers, shoes. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

The plush white carpet is stained with his blood as it trickles from his nose and mouth. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

And in the words and in the actions and in the deeds of the ‘white’ Muslims, I felt the same sincerity that I felt among the black African Muslims of Nigeria, Sudan, and Ghana. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But I plan to use my lips for kissin’ beautiful women, not the soles of some bald-headed white man’s feet. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

She turned her chair around to face the table and occupied herself with her water glass, twisting the stem around, making damp links on the white cloth. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Four blocks from her mother’s place is a white house with purple trim. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

And colored people didn’t just get promoted to white. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Rosemary helped me pick out a white dress and red heels for the party. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

I wanted to tell him he looked like a snowman in his puffy white coat and black hat, but of course I didn’t, because he is my teacher. The Science of Breakable Things 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

No one knew my past, my white mother, my dead father, nothing. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Widget is waiting for them, holding a black paper bag and watching the vibrant white flames. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I grabbed the comb off my white vanity, noticing a fresh coloring book and pencils sitting on my chair. Monday's Not Coming 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Outside, something new: Long Live the Führer has been written on the building across the street in white paint, still wet, and now I'll see it every time I leave work. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

There the white rind of the new Moon could be seen glimmering in the remote lakes. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

She looked out into the quiet, sunny streets, and for the first time in her life, she hated it all—the white city, the white world. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The sun slid behind a big white cloud and the street was plunged in cool shadow; quickly the sun edged forth again and it was bright and warm once more. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

By 1984, however, the black unemployment rate had nearly quadrupled, while the white rate had increased only marginally. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Thus far the green dragon had shown himself to be more dangerous than the white. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

She turned to her two children and told ’em, “Y’all go on in the garden and pick Mama some flowers. Make sure you bring me some them pretty purple and white ones.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

It came from the right to the left, in white waves, and quickly filled up the whole yard. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His white uniform is covered in green grass stains and dirt. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

“Now why in the world would you connect a dead white girl to us, huh? Why would you even think we have anything to do with that?” American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

Luster came up, with an ancient white horse in a battered and lopsided surrey. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

Serjeant Clippinger hung back, for the presence of a white man would do nothing but alarm a slave queried in such a manner. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume II: The Kingdom on the Waves 2009-10-13T00:00:00Z

Aibileen waves and I pretend I don’t even see my own best friend on the side of the road in her bright white uniform. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

A pretty young woman in a white summer dress held a knife to cut the cake. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The white witch only takes people who want to go.” Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

The white Southerner was always given his due by Mr. Muhammad. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

His jeans were wet with sea water to the thighs and where it was drying the white salt rings were forming. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the far end stood thirteen tall white columns, the Peristyle, with slashes of the blue lake visible between them. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

We have all brought cans of food from home for the poor, wrapped up in white tissue paper. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

He’s wearing wraparound sunglasses and white sunblock down his nose like a hfeguard. We Were Liars 2014-05-13T00:00:00Z

You couldn’t miss the guy in the green, red, and white Mexican poncho or the moppy hair covering his face. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

However, the association between housecleaning and minority status is well established in the psyches of the white employing class. Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America 2001-01-01T00:00:00Z

A blond Russian was white, and his aunt would not feel the need to prove that she liked people who looked like the blond Russian. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The book said that the Jim Crow laws, which had been in effect since the 1880s, divided whites and blacks into two separate worlds. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Then you run over to the window, and outside everything is covered in white: the sidewalks, the trees, the cars on the street, your windowpanes. Wonder 2012-02-14T00:00:00Z

Gripping the edges of his tray of half-eaten food, Daryl's knuckles turn white and his shoulders hunch up in a desperate attempt to hide the look of humiliation burning his face. The Misfits 2001-10-01T00:00:00Z

The real Fig by my side flipped over, exposing his white, furry belly with a whimpering grunt. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

He has long white hair down to his shoulders. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

Riders on white horses looked at Meggie as if scarcely a day had passed since someone had painted them with tiny marten-hair brushes. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

It’s an open invitation and other people climb in, like this white man in a shirt and tie and a Latino holding a camera on his shoulder. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

Coraline shook it and set the snow flying, white snow that glittered as it tumbled through the water. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

Never did they want people, especially white peo- pie, to think that their lives were so much touched by anything so dark and brutal as Bigger. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

We went straight to her room and I sat down in her white wicker rocking chair and waited for the news. Homesick 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

It's a small white circle of flat bread. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

It meant that all family units were to be dismantled to make way for barracks housing only single men and women working in the white world. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He plucked a small object from behind my ear and held it in front of me—a pea-size blob of soggy white paper. Schooled 2000-02-29T00:00:00Z

He was dark—as dark as an African—and had a lovely smile, white, white teeth against his dark skin. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

As Lord Eddard passed beneath the King's Gate into the stink of the city, his grey and white cloak streaming from his shoulders, he saw eyes everywhere and kicked his mount into a trot. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Then they could see the drifts of snow outdoors and the great trees standing bare and black, making thin blue shadows on the white snow. Little House in the Big Woods 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

The floors were shining, the walls a cool, soothing white, and the titles of the paintings were written in Spanish, with the English translation as a secondary thing. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

We rolled past the neat square of grass with its bright white bandstand, its perverted pulpit, and right on by the For Sale sign planted in front of the Kites’. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

I picked up the white dress I had left on the floor and put it back in the box with the tissue paper. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The boiler was straight ahead, a giant, white, curvaceous beast, with a rough asbestos hide. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

The skin had a quality of taut anxiety and around the oval of white face was a framework of whiter hair. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Whitby’s lips peeled back in a smile, revealing small white teeth. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

The lambskin and the cable-tow used in Masonry today are symbolic of how the nakedness of the white man was covered when he was chained and driven across the hot sand. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Suddenly I grew guilty at the realization that the white man might have thought so too. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The early morning sky was deep, silky blue and the moon had turned from silver to white. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

Behind the white pieces they could see another door. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

Behind us, the hat spun out into the morning air in a white blur, like a miniature flying saucer, and landed right smack in the middle of the highway. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The whites would boil away on the stove awhile. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

The wind is furious, the view out the window pure white. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

On Sasha’s first full day in the hospital, a stranger dropped off a bouquet of silk flowers—three white roses and four stalks of orange Chinese lanterns. The 57 Bus 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

Did they know about my breaking the law by playing tennis with whites? Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eberechi’s aunty had a white scarf tied around her head and a soiled wrapper around her chest and she spoke so quietly that Richard had to ask her to repeat herself. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

It stood about three feet high and was gray with a white belly and long tail. The Stars Beneath Our Feet 2017-09-19T00:00:00Z

He did not mention the incident at all, but asked me if I could bring him the following things: some pencils, plain white paper, a ruler, a protractor, and a drawing compass. Z for Zachariah 1976-07-29T00:00:00Z

On my journey, the world goes from mostly white to browner to brown to brown and black. Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

For non-Catholics, it seemed, there was all white and no yolk. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A small stream of white light shot from the wand, and Seven floated up, looking around in amazement as she did. Witchlings 2022-04-05T00:00:00Z

His front was still clean and white, but his back was now filthy. Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Rab had gone into one of the many stalls and backed out a tall, slender horse, so pale he was almost white, but flecked all over with tiny brown marks. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sliver of moon, like the white crescent of a thumbnail, floated in the dim. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Justice Rumpff, with his aloof manner, gave the impression throughout the proceedings that he shared the point of view of the ruling white minority. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“While Christians kneel before a white man! They are the flunkies of a foreign god. They are the nightmare of all non-white people.” Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

We pass an indoor garden, a marble bathing onsen, and a series of offices, until we stop before a white door marked with a white rose snaking through a four-pointed crown. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

I see the white Peacekeeper uniform, the pointed chin, the light brown iris where my arrow will find a home. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

But then the river hits the wall, and white water sprays against Christina’s back. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

Like the two women he’d encountered before, most wore plain brown tunics, and some had even accentuated their attire with brightly colored leaves woven into their kinky white hair. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

If white sharks were heading north, what if humans had to adapt? The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

But as an aspiring architect, she couldn’t help admiring the terraced gardens, the fountains and temples, the winding cobblestone streets and gleaming white villas. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

The crimson “Northwood” that blazed across his white jersey gave him a sense of pride, a sense of belonging. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

One looked red and one paler, white or yellow maybe, but both were limp and with the dusk settling, she could not even be certain that red one was Lannister crimson. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Years later I learned that our squash-blossom necklaces and turquoise bracelets, earrings and hair ornaments and silver belts, were sold to white men and women. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

She could see that his forehead was too high, that a small scar cut a white stroke through his eyebrow. Uglies 2005-02-08T00:00:00Z

Her white robe was cinched around her torso with silver braid. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

He pushed past the white dude and stood huge in the living room, looking all around until he turned and found me sitting on the couch. We Were Here 2009-10-05T00:00:00Z

When Dr. King stepped out of his room, a white man— a petty criminal named James Earl Ray—shot him. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Reynolds,” he said to a young white man, “this is Richard.” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tariq flashed them little white teeth at me, then go off on her bidding. How It Went Down 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

"He said that I believed that white was right," I said. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was dressed in a white suit, looking as immaculate and pure as if he had made an offering to Santa Clara to wear white for her, just for her. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

Somehow we got a hedgehog, and Sally contributed a white and black rat, rescued from the school lab during vacation. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

But it calmed her to sing it now as she attached the red, blue, and white wires to the statue of Miss Miss. Heavenly stars, but she’d had a busy few days! Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

Colored folks working with white folks, not just for them? Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

So even with the white sheet covering her whole body and her face, I already know. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The restaurant is for paying guests only, which is, needless to say, whites, since the Africans around here wouldn’t earn enough in a month to buy one of my prix-fixe dinners. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Old Loomis had preached many a one in the white kitchens of Cold Sassy. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The white man leaped from his chair, flabbergasted by the storm of screams in his office. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A coldness had come, like white snow falling on the air. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

Why would a white girl hang around Harlem unless she was up to something bad? The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The numbers were like war paint on the white face of the clock, the hands like swords as they slashed across the pearly surface. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

In the lobby the doorman dozed, his starched bib buckling beneath his chin with his breathing, his white head bare. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was in the very sea-roads of those white barbaric folk. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

While I was walking in the city one day, I noticed a white woman in the gutter gnawing on some fish bones. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was. But I wasn’t white. All through training, Michael harassed me.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

Mom was wearing white coveralls, like a painter, and a headlamp glowed like a star in the center of her forehead. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I knew that blacks did not have the same chances as whites, and I did not want to do something that was commendable only as a Negro accomplishment. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Lightfoot caught my other hand and held it tight, her eyes wide, her face gone white. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

I'd have called it an Afro except it was on a white guy’s head. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

There’s a giant picture over her clean white desk of her son, Noah, at his bar mitzvah. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

The Object and Rex Reese were sitting together on a white wicker couch. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

When Malcolm X, the supposed demon of the white man, was killed, I asked her who he was and she said, “He was a man ahead of his time.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The instant I pressed my lips there, I jumped back, a flash of white burning inside my eyelids. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

Even with the light off, the heads assume strange power in the dark: pure white, not quite visible but not entirely invisible, embedded into Werner’s retinas, almost glowing in the blackness. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

No white plates to put in the sink, because Uncle Tony had us eat on paper ones. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

After the other students got up, there were three empty seats in my row, but that white woman still wouldn’t sit down—not even across the aisle from me. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

It’s got a white stone exterior with pillars and brass accents, and it’s so painfully classy, I almost feel underdressed. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Her clothes, her carriage, her accent, all showed Deep South white breeding and money. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

As middle- and upper-class young men were much more likely to get a deferment from the draft, King noted how the draft ended up unfairly targeting the poor—white and black alike. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

Thalia gripped the wheel so tight her knuckles turned white. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

By nightfall snow was coming down so heavily that the moon rose behind a white curtain, unseen. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

In the moonlight, Luke’s blond hair looked pure white. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

“Hast thou ever heard slave owners talk? They use that phrase to say the colored men are constitutionally unfit to mingle with whites.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

Peering through the blades of grass round his head, he could see the curve of a white back. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

If you’re from Iran, imagine a big bathtub on a balcony, center stage, behind a pulpit, under a giant cross, and three grown men in white hospital gowns getting in. Everything Sad Is Untrue 2020-08-25T00:00:00Z

The government’s intention in creating the homeland system was to keep the Transkei — and other African areas — as reservoirs of cheap labor for white industry. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

They are generally younger, white, male, mostly talking and laughing and pointing to the house. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cool white in the darkness, the freckles gathered on her shoulders and cheeks like cream rising to the top. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

He stood on the bridge and shoved the last pile of wood over, his breath white in the glow of the firelight. The Road 2006-09-28T00:00:00Z

If I ever really hotly hated unthinking whites, it was then. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But reality came in the venom the white bus driver was spitting as he reached for the side door to come after me. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

My head swam with the parading faces of white people. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Although it was about the size of a small child, it looked much more like a little gentleman, with its smooth white waistcoat in front and its long black tailcoat dragging a little behind. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

It was like a blown kiss, and Caesar went white to the lips. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

Anything was better than walking all day on carpeting, than eating the soft bland food white people ate, than having to sneak a look at the sky from behind ivory curtains. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I say Indian field, not great-grandfather’s field, because the white oak, like my hemlock, is at least three hundred years old, maybe four. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I sat up and looked around the library space, looked at all the white faces like mine in the room. Tradition 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed particularly unfair to them that white immigrants new to America, born in foreign lands, could vote and could find higher-paying jobs in manufacturing industries—rights that native-born blacks were denied. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The first thing I noticed was a huge pile of pancakes sitting on a blue and white plate on top of the table. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

“When I came through, I could just about see that big hill behind the white house up there, and looking this way there was the café there, and...” The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

This is our first day with Ms. Simon, who is a middle-aged white lady, and I worry that she might be the type who doesn’t get it. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

His shoulders were white and narrow, and his trunks were royal blue. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Beside a small bottle of water and a white headband were two spray-paint bottles, one with a white top and one with a blue. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

“I have never seen pups in a white shark’s uterus before,” Robin told us. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

“What about . . .” Milkman searched his memory for some white person who had shown himself unequivocally supportive of Negroes. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

What a white bloodless ghost of a woman! And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

The same principle would also prolong the harsh realities of life for poor blacks like Ann Atwater, let alone for the equally poor, and increasingly threatened, whites like C. P. Ellis. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

How would he even know about a person like me, the white little crooked girl as I was called? The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

In their unquestioning acceptance of their own superiority, whites were unable to entertain the possibility that many blacks considered living next door to whites as the cost of obtaining adequate housing. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Mixing them like that, during school and church and everything, they end up white and black get together and marry and all. . . I just can’t see the sense in it.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

By the time I was a teenager, I felt I had no reason to trust a white person. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

And here were the great-great- grand squabs cooing in the morning and rising to fly like a whirling white scarf around the wagon shed. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

The kitchen is a little shabby, with old-fashioned white cabinets full of handprints, unwashed mugs on the counter, and a sink full of dishes. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

These whites appeared as grand as gods to me, and I was aware that they were to be treated with a mixture of fear and respect. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I see the stubble on his chin, a fleck of white in the corner of his mouth. Speak 1999-10-01T00:00:00Z

BaiMa sliced through the air, the wind making Pinmei’s braid a stroke of black ink on the paper white of the sky. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

This isn’t like when we broke up because she likes her peanut-butter-and-jelly sandwiches on wheat bread, when everybody knows white bread is the only bread for a PBJ. Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

But when a shooter stepped up to the white chalk line, he became all business. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

“When I first saw them, I thought they were white wolves.” Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The white walkers go lightly on the snow,” the ranger said. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

If Durham was so different from other Southern cities, so liberal on racial issues, so prosperous for both blacks and whites, then what was the meaning of Hayti? The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

A similar phenomenon had followed slavery and Reconstruction, as white elites struggled to define a new racial order with the understanding that whatever the new order would be, it could not include slavery. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

She just took it as part of the unspoken rules of life, the same as don’t back-talk elders and clear off the sidewalk for white folks to get by. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

“Why do the whites hate us—we don’t hate them?” he asked. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He opened his eyes briefly, but only the whites showed, and I was glad when he stopped trying. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I hurry down the main street, which is lined with wooden houses painted white, yellow, blue, and red. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

My hands are white at the knuckles, I clench them so tightly in my longing for the fire to cease so that my comrades may come. All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is my solemn reflection looking back at me, my hair as white as salt. Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

The only thing I see is a lady in white in front of a microphone. Amari and the Night Brothers 2021-01-19T00:00:00Z

She stared blindly at the screen, on which she saw not Debbie Reynolds cavorting in color but rather Jean Harlow taking a bath in black and white. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s not headless—it’s a white cow with a black head, you little featherbrain!” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Bluebirds fly all over a sky with perfect white clouds. Out of My Mind 2010-03-09T00:00:00Z

It was a random, bristly beard, and some of the bristles were white, even though Billy was only twenty-one years old. Slaughterhouse-Five 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were four deep mattresses, each piled with white blankets, laid on the floor along one side. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He joins me at the table with a bowl of white grapes. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

White Boy’s real name was Paul, but everyone called him White Boy because his father was Lebanese-American and his mother was white. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

Her back is long and white and split by the knobs of her vertebrae. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Cora stared at the wax faces of the white people. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It was a brown seed with a spray of white fluff coming out of it. Milkweed 2003-09-09T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, well, my mama had to work extra for her family. They’re having a big to-do party tonight and you know white folks can’t barely do for themselves,” he says, laughing to himself. Finding Langston 2018-08-14T00:00:00Z

He had always felt outside of this white world, and now it was true. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

They are gone, left in cars that came for them, driven by pale Americans in white uniforms with gold braids on their shoulders and on their caps. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Fryer came to wonder: is distinctive black culture a cause of the economic disparity between blacks and whites or merely a reflection of it? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The air was coloring everything gray, and the fog was coming up from the ground in white shreds and billows, as if the whole campsite had lifted itself up into the clouds overnight. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

To the other maidens he had given white roses, but the one he plucked for her was red. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

But one day, she couldn’t stop staring, and soon, the girl, who was the whitest thing on the trolley, caught her. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

Let white flowers grow upon this place that you rest, Yours was a life well lived, and now you dine in the halls of the Elders at their eternal feast. The Serpent King 2016-03-08T00:00:00Z

I suppose with her gray eyes and light brown hair, Lily could look white to some white people, but she'd never fool anyone colored. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

“A towhead,” Mom called him because his hair is so blond it’s almost white. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

Everything she wore was white, including her shoes. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

After a few minutes, she stopped protesting, and he pulled her shirt off, and she had a white bra on with lace. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

Lightning flashed outside, making the arrow loops blaze blue and white for half a heartbeat. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

George was slouching through the door in a bulky red sweater, white denims, and beige flamenco boots with slim-pointed toes. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun grew misty as the day grew old, until it gleamed in a pale sky like a high white pearl. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The white canopy ballooned on the night wind, flapping softly, tied by a thousand green ribbons to the birds. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Under the sea the crows are white as snow, I know, I know, oh, oh, oh.” A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

A young woman with ocean-green eyes and a white scarf draped around her face peeked out. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

When two white FBI men came to my house, my mother and father sat close to me on the sofa. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

A white hand with crimson fingernails leapt from the window ledge onto a drainpipe and was immediately out of sight. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

“Not even a pocket handkerchief. The house belongs to some white folks in Clarksville.” The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

The Muslims of “white” complexions who had changed my opinions were men who had showed me that they practiced genuine brotherhood. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Dr. van Heerden is Afrikaans. It’s a different kind of white person. He doesn’t like to be bothered by children, so stay out of his way.” A Girl Named Disaster 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was nothing but the white mist about me, smelling of sea-weed dank and chill. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

As I watched the others go ahead of me, I noticed for the first time that one of the mice was white. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

He finds the term “African-American” too limiting, since it doesn’t reflect his white and American Indian heritage. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the white people ’round here are always trying to blame everything that goes bad on Settlement folks and we waren’t looking for no trouble. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Sitting there in the back of the cab with that big white box on my lap, those cupcakes sure did smell good. Absolutely Almost 2014-06-01T00:00:00Z

The mother’s voice sounds as smooth and soft as her creamy curtains and her skin glows as white as the milk she pours into the cereal. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I walked to a nearby farmhouse and explained in English to an elderly white lady that I would like to buy some petrol. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Lourdes slaps two quarters on the counter and leaves the coffee steaming in its thick white mug. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

But three out of four birds that walked out of the white box looked just like his: gunsmoke gray. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

And twelve more white men had stopped whatever they were doing to listen and pass on what happened between Janie and Tea Cake Woods, and as to whether things were done right or not. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

Around her neck is a white choker with a silver charm hanging from the middle. Starfish 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

That’s where the sincere whites who really mean to accomplish something have got to work. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The men in the white suits went into action. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

But by night, they put on white sheets and masks, carried fiery crosses, and did lots of evil things to our people. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The water hissed and boiled when it struck the burning wood, sending up a vapor of white steam. The Great Fire 1995-04-01T00:00:00Z

A conductor gives them their bedding, heavy white cotton sheets and thin woolen blankets. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

But when I opened my mouth, what came out was, “Have you ever heard of a light-skinned Negro pretending to be white?” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

I had a white lady tell me once that blood looks redder on a colored person. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

An increasing number of Harlem leaders declared that the principal reason for this was the downtown white press media, sensationalizing what was going on in a calm, dignified community. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

A white blur of fur darts from the corner of my vision. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

“Not only do blacks earn less on average than whites, but the differences in wealth and race are staggering,” Allen said. Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Frisby had heard that Mr. Ages was not truly a white mouse; that is, he had not been born with white fur, but had turned white from old age. Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

The Preacher slapped two whole American quarters on a table and told the white woman sitting there, “Me and my boy want to see the mesmerist.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

I let myself be convinced and then the mark began to drag the Northern whites. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

A breeze blows the white curtains in on either side of her, two ghostly arms embracing her. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

His curly red hair was matted, his chin was decked with spit, and the whites of his eyes showed all around the pupils. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

A reporter stands in a park somewhere, speaking directly to the camera as she gestures to the snowy hillside, the shaggy white trees. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

And it really didn’t help when I pointed out that I had had to wear white feathers on my butt and that wearing a purple orchid really wasn’t as bad as that. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

On the rails, we was all one, but outside the yards, it was a world of white and colored. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They tell us race is an invention, that there is more genetic variation between two black people than there is between a black person and a white person. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Dorothy’s insistence also had a collateral effect: one of the white computers in the branch, in the same limbo position as Katherine, had herself gone to Pearson to petition for a raise. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

The room was small and white, with bright lights and metal cabinets. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I want to paint one wall white,” I say. A Soft Place to Land 2021-09-14T00:00:00Z

He had deep brown eyes—I mean completely brown with no whites or black pupils, like eyes formed out of clay. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She stared obsessively at the frail column of white smoke that was issuing from the volcano, and peered at the changes in the color of the sky. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Unless they could find a place to themselves or beside another white, they stood in the aisle. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The father looked to be about five six, maybe 150 pounds, and this white dude could have been Ivan Drago from Rocky IV without the accent. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

I pumped and pushed, my ankles loose and wobbly in my sneakers, my jeans stiff and hot, the whole time seeing Lu out the corner of my eye like a white blur. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

They peered out from balconies, or from beneath archways between houses, or from meticulously landscaped parks that opened onto the white stone boulevard. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

One was sobbing, and the tears made tracks through her-heavy white makeup. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

I could see the moving red and white lights along the drive and the lights of the bridges whose names I didn't know. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

“What do you think accounts for the success of the white man’s mission in Africa, Richard?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Booth saw the red, white, and blue flags, further confirmation of the president’s visit that night. Chasing Lincoln's Killer 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

The man gave Ignatius a little rectangle of white paper. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Searching for a way out, I said, “Why do Granny’s white people all of a sudden want to see me? What’s so special about me? Why not someone else? George or Uncle Piet, for instance.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

They took a winding lane up toward the Forester farm, and the crescent moon hung white in the sky and the stars burned in the darkness above them. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Her overhanging brow shades large black eyes that are outlined in white feathers. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

His teeth are a bright white flash as he smiles at me. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

For three days in a row, the sky was like a dingy white sheet. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

The Great War had always been between the white and the black. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

It’s true dusk now and the snow on the ground is bluish- white. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Below us, Camp Half-Blood looked peaceful—green fields, forest, shiny white Greek buildings. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He wore bright white jeans and leather sandals on his...well, not feet, but curved snakeheads. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

She then sprinkles a handful of white powdered detergent in the water and begins to scrub my clothes. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The syllables float overhead, drifting into an icy blur of white. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

First we found a linen closet in the hospital corridor where Buddy took out a white mask for me to wear and some gauze. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

His smile was a flash of white teeth in the thicket of the huge black beard. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Tall and thin, he had a drawn face and skin white as milk. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I put Mr. Patterson in a pair of white shorts with skinny white legs sticking out and I gave Mrs. Patterson a big sunhat and a bathing suit, imagining Moxie bottles in the sand. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

In the library, Ophie discovered a finely dressed white man speaking with an unseen partner about the rights of the African. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

She must have realized now that I was aware of her awful truth—she was an adult being treated like a child by the white folks. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The white men mostly spoke of the glorious days of the previous king of Belgium, King Léopold, who first made the Congo into what it is today. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Since the white people around us weren’t leaving, there weren’t a lot of families like ours moving in behind us. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

In a matter of days, though, they’d shed that pale yellow fuzz for tough new white feathers, and in just a few weeks, the chicken people, Perdue or whoever, would be back to collect them. Red Kayak 2004-09-23T00:00:00Z

The subject of white folks is associationally swept into the orbit of talk. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And then maybe she would hide the skin there, deep in the hollow of a tree, for when she needed to spread enormous white wings. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

I knew that people expected me to harbor anger toward whites. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

And the small, slight tail gunner was lying on the floor beside Snowden in a dead faint, his face as white as a handkerchief, so that Yossarian sprang forward with revulsion to help him first. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

Didu reclaims her sofa spot and the loose end of her white sari floats across my lap. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Below them as they came safely down to land, the surrounding orchards were foamy with white apple and cherry blossoms, in spite of the bloodshed so close by. A Thousand Sisters 2019-01-22T00:00:00Z

My sisters wished me well, and George promised to come to Ellis Park after he had caddied at a golf course in a white suburb nearby. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The first task of these leaders was to punish individual Cherokees who attacked whites, and to deal with the white government. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

But, unless the entire white section was empty, blacks alone had to get back off the bus and reenter through the rear door. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

Her face was all white and stricken and I thought she’d quit then, but she kept it together, she kept it coming, although she sounded sort of shaky. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

We both watched as the door to the police car opened and the tallest white man I’d ever seen stepped out. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

The white vapour of the kiln was passing from us as we went by, and as I had thought a prayer before, I thought a thanksgiving now. Great Expectations 1861-08-01T00:00:00Z

A separate territory on which we can lift ourselves out of these white man’s slums for us, and his breadlines for us. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

From the lakeshore looking up southward at the hills I saw a light I knew: the blink, the white suffusion of the sky, the glare of the glacier lying high beyond. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

With his white shirt and red bow tie, Inspector Becker looks more like a banker than an inspector. The Boy Who Dared 2008-02-01T00:00:00Z

Standing in four rows in front of us are a group of people, mostly dressed in black and white, spaced two feet apart, guns held up and ready. Insurgent 2012-05-01T00:00:00Z

“Spit. In my face. A Negro in my home. Trying to act white.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

He watched the thick white smoke drift upward like a twisted ribbon dissolving into the sky. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

He had “integrated” into a neighborhood of whites who had made his life miserable. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

Many of the gangsters wear white plastic rosaries around their necks so the migrants will be less suspicious. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

For some reason Cholly had not hated the white men; he hated, despised, the girl. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

And it lasted forever, three or four hours at least, which confused me because white church was only like an hour—in and out, thanks for coming. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

It was blue and white, with wave designs on the sides and a trident painted on the front. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

"Well,” he said, "it looks to me like a white tomato.” Bunnicula 1979-03-01T00:00:00Z

He took hold of the white tassel, stood up, and gently lifted off her cap. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

The tent full of people on raised circular platforms, performing tricks with bright white fire. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

The doctor put a strip of white adhesive tape over Willie's cut, and left. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sweat was beginning to pop through his white robe. Cheaper by the Dozen 1948-01-01T00:00:00Z

They’re white leather with just a little heel like a grownup young lady. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some were brightly painted, and shone with silver and gold and green, but most were either white or grey. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

Macon stopped, as though the mention of illness reminded him of his own frailty, and pulled a large white handkerchief out of his pocket. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

I glimpsed his white coat and turned to him. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was caught in it, a smothering shroud, hot, white, the bitter smell of burned powder. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

They even produced a dark suit, white shirt, and tie for Cholly. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried to close my mind to Grandmother’s words: “The only thing a white man ever wants with one of our women is personal favors.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I couldn’t get over marveling at how their hair was straight and shiny like white men’s hair; Ella told me this was called a “conk.” The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room slowly turns around us, the ledge still slippery, the wall of water shining white with the sun. The Knife of Never Letting Go 2008-05-05T00:00:00Z

The door opens before he can get to it and Oslo Fouke steps in, smiling, in a white button-down shirt and black necktie. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

We weren’t Black or white or Muslim or Christian, we were athletes. Proud 2018-07-24T00:00:00Z

Standing on the hill was a tall woman in a white dress, her dark hair braided over her shoulder. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

He gestured with his long, white fingers and smiled, his face crinkling pleas-antly. Tuck Everlasting 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry, Ron and Hermionfe shivered slightly — the towering white chessmen had no faces. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone 1997-06-26T00:00:00Z

There is creamy white stuff on their lips, which they lick with little sighs. Angela's Ashes: A Memoir 1996-09-05T00:00:00Z

“And what you want me to do, Florence? You want me to turn white?” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

Don’t you go sassing this white lady like you done the other. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It was a piece of warm sweet potato pie with some white fluffy stuff called whipped cream swopped all over the top of it. Bud, Not Buddy 1999-09-02T00:00:00Z

When these townships were established, Afrikaners, or whites of Dutch ancestry, made up 9 percent of the population. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

He heard the door behind him open; he turned his head just in time to see another white man look in questioningly. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

You know, like race is a brew best served mild, tempered with other liquids, otherwise white folk can’t swallow it.” Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

The other bird still circled overhead, still singing, and then she flew down to join him: another dove, but pearl white, and with a crest of dark red feathers. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

She was tall, dressed in white, wearing a pith helmet with veils that floated across her face, settled around her shoulders, and trailed down her back. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her face was a pile of white cloud afire with red hair. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

He wore suspenders and a white blouse, looking like the innocent child he would have been in a different world. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Red started singing as they walked off, but he changed the words: “I’m dreaming of a white Central.” The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because the white peace talkers invited all of them and us to come,” she replied. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Hans Muller was a white estate agent who did business with Mr. Sidelsky and would engage me in discussion. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her mother’s teeth spread into view as she smiled at Jam, sharp and white. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Pulling my hat down lower over my ears, I walk over to her, my footsteps crunching noisily as I walk through the perfect blanket of white. Five Feet Apart 2018-11-20T00:00:00Z

The boys wore dark pants and white shirts on those Sundays, and the girls wore their prettiest white dresses. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Ann had never talked to a policeman before, certainly not a white one, but now in tears she did as she was told. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

When Mrs. Rickets asked why some of the white children objected to going to school with us, Sammy Dean replied: “Well, it’s racial, marrying each other.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

This morning the field had been covered with a thick blanket of old snow, its white crust shining in the sun. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His eyes in their bulging sockets ticked up and down, trying to understand the specter of this huge white man. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A little way off, beyond a line of scattered juniper-trees, which marked the pathway to the church, a white, dim figure flitted in the direction of the tomb. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

And then they were beneath the bridge, white walls heavy with curtains of grey fungus looming to either side, water foaming angrily around them. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her tiny white hands dangled over the back of the front seat and her eyes looked out vacantly. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Bigger forced a smile and looked down at the black and white linoleum on the floor. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Thin, white whiskers shimmered in the light, and a pink tongue poked out from above her white chin. Tiger Boy 2015-10-01T00:00:00Z

The track and gym are instead walls of white. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

The white wolf hunted well away from the line of march, but he was not having much better fortune than the foragers Smallwood sent out after game. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

This was also true of the cement squares of the walkway leading up to the Perfect House, which were bordered by perfectly matching azalea bushes, all the same height, alternating between pink and white blossoms. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

One study found that some whites are so loath to talk about race and so fearful of violating racial etiquette that they indicate a preference for avoiding all contact with black people. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

And the soldiers wore the girls’ hats, one a tiny yellow straw boater with a bunch of daisies on the crown, the other a white knitted half-hat to which medallions of blue cellophane adhered. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Over here,” Officer Crams said to Rick, leading him to a small white table at which a technician operated familiar equipment. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

Then he climbed the ladder into the white cupola and sat listening to the rain, watching the light come. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, if even one white passenger wanted to sit in a row occupied by four black riders, the driver would glance up and yell, “I need those seats!” Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

I knew that many people, par-ticularly the minorities, whites, Coloureds, and Indians, would be feeling anxious about the future, and I wanted them to feel secure. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

As Kyle squinted at the wide swath of shiny white, he noticed a series of evenly spaced glowing green LEDs at eye level on the wall. Mr. Lemoncello's Library Olympics 2016-01-05T00:00:00Z

She wore a hotel maid’s uniform, gray with a white collar. Eleven 2014-01-06T00:00:00Z

Once a woman told me that colored flowers would seem more bright if you added a few white flowers to give the colors definition. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

She fixed her a crown of braids, leaving most of it tumbling long, and wove in vines and sprays of orchids, sprigs of fern, and the one white feather. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Without a word, she washed her hands in the sink, then took the skillet from me and put it in the oven and set the little white kitchen timer next to the stove. Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Mama had sewn red velvet dresses with white eyelet pinafores for Mia and me. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her skirt was over her head, showing her pink panties and her little white legs. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

I don’t mean because he’s white or because he’s younger than me. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

But unlike in Amman, the boys playing in Clarkston seemed to come from many different backgrounds—they were white, black, and brown. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

The photographer fiddled with his hot white lights. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

His hair was red on one side and white on the other, all matted and filthy from cage and travel. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

Except for one Lost Girl in this group, everyone else was white. Lost Boy, Lost Girl 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

A sturdy-built man in white trousers and a bright red coat took command of the stage. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

His father wears a transparent white Punjabi top over bell-bottom trousers. The Namesake 2003-09-01T00:00:00Z

The people of Turner Station just watched me, smiling and shaking their heads like, What’s that young white girl doing driving around in circles? The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

It’s like they picked the worst parts—the drug addicts roaming the streets, the broken-down Cedar Grove projects, gangbangers flashing signs, bodies on the sidewalks with white sheets over them. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

He comes back not five minutes later, his face white as linen. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

Remembering the refusal of the Black Tennis Association to send players to the Open, I said, “I don’t want to be used by white people.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

There is one man among them who is not quite a native, though not quite a white man either. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

A single eye blinked open, and the haint smiled, showing a row of perfect white teeth. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

My three uncles peer down, their fat necks bulging from starched white collars. Hollow City 2014-01-14T00:00:00Z

When the monks cut open her body, they found inside a large white winter melon. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

He had blond hair, so pale it was almost white, hanging fine and straight down to his ears. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even in the gloom, I could see an icy slash of white that the wind had forced through the keyhole and across the cabin floor. Hattie Big Sky 2006-09-26T00:00:00Z

Where seconds before he’d been able to see the distinct form of the funnel, he now could see only a flat expanse of white. The Maze Runner 2009-10-06T00:00:00Z

And he had dreadlocks, which is what some black people have, but he was white, and dreadlocks is when you never wash your hair and it looks like old rope. The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Then, without looking at Polly, she added, “You white gal. You not need us.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

Mami starched and ironed my best dress, which was white with blue flowers on the collar. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Then he turned around and said to Milkman, “But you know what that means, don’t you? If she took the white man’s bones and left the gold, then the gold must still be there.” Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Griffith presented the Klan as crusaders for white civilization itself, and as one of the noblest forces in American history. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The nerd at the window—I shouldn’t call him a nerd, but he’s white with an Afro and thick black glasses, plus he’s got a black, silver-buckled belt and white tennis shoes. Towers Falling 2016-07-12T00:00:00Z

Too tired to mix the saffron-colored powder into the hard cake of oleo, she simply smeared the white stuff on the bread and sprinkled the sugar over it. Sula 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

Some years before Bailey and I arrived in town, a man was hunted down for assaulting white womanhood. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Butler led 400 white Durham High students in a walkout to protest Black Culture Week. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“The problem is,” Anne McClean would say, “your three Lakota parts are all hidden inside. Your one white part is on the outside.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

Afterward he pondered about this white man a long time. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

But pretty soon, he laid all that aside and went about his business dressed all in white. Their Eyes Were Watching God 1937-09-18T00:00:00Z

He was a tall, rather reddish white man and he had a thick mustache. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She tried to make her mind a blank white canvas, but as hard as she tried, she couldn’t keep the canvas blank. Ruby Holler 2002-02-01T00:00:00Z

Soft white luminous patches, like schools of jellyfish, floated before Jason’s eyes. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

She was wearing this loose white blouse that pulled in tight under her tits and these faded yellow bell-bottoms that shimmered when she moved. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

In her honor, the brother planted all the remaining kernels, and it is said that the finest white corn grew from them. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

“I only want white people working on my house.” Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Sapo took out a plastic spoon and began to eat his flan, which floated inside a white carton filled with sugary syrup. Bodega Dreams 2000-03-14T00:00:00Z

In beauty, history, and communal meaning, it rivaled, if not surpassed, any church in the white community. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She wore a dress with skirts and long sleeves of white, streaked and spotted with orchid-purple. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

And then I spotted him—the three white blazes on his face—way off in the back. The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

He was a white man of my height—about six feet tall—with a muscular build. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Each of us depended upon the whites for the bread we ate, and we actually trusted the whites more than we did each other. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In this, the government was successful, for the riots poisoned the views of some whites who might otherwise have been sympathetic. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come on. Le’s get dinner. I don’t know whether he got a brown and white one.” Of Mice and Men 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

We led the white man to the liquor; he unstoppered it and smelt it, then tasted the wetness on the cork. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

A white library employee, watching them, assumed that the two black men were dealing drugs and called a supervisor. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Bernd’s face is white with dust, but his eyes are two voids and his mouth is a maroon hole. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

I didn’t know exactly when cars were invented, but I figured that was like prehistoric times—back when people watched black-and- white TV and hunted dinosaurs. The Titan's Curse 2007-05-11T00:00:00Z

“Doesn’t the rest of the world know about the suffering and deaths caused by apartheid? Aren’t white South Africans aware of the oppressive nature of the regime they always vote for?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was still dressed in her work clothes, a white blouse and dark dress pants, but she looked pretty chilled, and I decided to risk the next line. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

His picture—never really inspected—had been of clean-eyed young men and immaculate girls, all in academic robes and converging on a white temple on the crown of a wooded hill in the evening. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

He would have fallen directly before the bus if Jones hadn’t leaped into the street and pulled at the white smock with his two large hands. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

So when the other kids in Soweto called me “white,” even though I was light brown, I just thought they had their colors mixed up, like they hadn’t learned them properly. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The next day the doorbell rings, and when I go to answer, I peep through the hole and I see a white lady standing at the door. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Everything blacks said was good for the country, whites would say was bad, and vice versa. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

A red, white, and blue welcome banner unfurled at the end of the dock: Welcome Pastor Buckminster! Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Outside, the sky had whited over with clouds, and shine spilled across the surfaces, sending motes before my eyes. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wears a white apron; she carries a tray of hors d’oeuvres. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sisters would almost always be dressed in white from crown to toe. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

The back yard was strewn over with white gravel. Go Set a Watchman: A Novel 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Tariq ran his hand over his newly shaved scalp and smiled, showing white, slightly uneven teeth. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

I was surprised to see the superintendent come forth with a package wrapped in white tissue paper, and, gesturing for quiet, address the men. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I wish I could always wear a white dress and carry red roses and that we could always throw money around like we did tonight,” wished Francie. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

My eyes grazed over the crowd, not taking in any faces, until I spotted something familiar: an enormous white flower. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

His thick hair was peppered with white and combed back. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

His white cheeks were flushed, and he rubbed at his nose before he spoke. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Out on the river, fireboats let loose with their sirens and shot white plumes of water high into the air. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Before long we began to spot signs for gas stations and boating supplies, and along the shore there were white mooring buoys. Hole in My Life 2002-03-26T00:00:00Z

Chamberlain knew one to speak to: a silent roundheaded man with a white wife, a farmer, living far out of town, without fhends. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then he saw two dark figures, Frodo and a man, framed against the archway, which was now filled with a pale white light. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

I don’t think blacks are for whites, whites for blacks. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

A flock of white pigeons flew out of the black cypress tree as Jody passed, and circled the tree and landed again. The Red Pony 1937-01-01T00:00:00Z

They targeted former slaves and any whites who supported the blacks’ rights to vote, acquire land, or gain an education. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

I could read her thought: If Jesus’ mother is blacky how come we only know about the white Mary? The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Every single time, it was like he had drawn a white curtain around his brain. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

“Technology! Innovation! A modernized state in which all Americans—Negroes, whites, Indians—could live together.” Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

I went over to them when I saw Valentine Carmina, drop-dead gorgeous in a tight black skirt and a white V-necked sweater. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

I peeled the paper off and a silky white shirt slithered onto my hands. Darius the Great Is Not Okay 2018-08-28T00:00:00Z

He was, in time, to discover that hatred of white men—but not now. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I ain’t never had a white person in my house before.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

But the turquoise house with the white trim isn’t where it used to be. In the Time of the Butterflies 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The black horses speed up until each is trotting beside a white horse. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

She might be the lady with the dazzling smile who offered you a sweet from a white paper bag in the street before lunch. The Witches 1983-10-27T00:00:00Z

Then the grape tree had to be cut down at the seashore, painted white, and hung with silver and gold balls and showered with tinsel. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

The tall stone marker was nearby, and several white markers were on the slope. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

She throws a white button-down and a pair of jeans at him, and he pitches himself out of bed. Red, White & Royal Blue 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

I studied the situation, then laid the matter before white friends of mine who held influential positions in the Works Progress Administration. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And when I was a Negro, the whites judged me fit for the junk heap, while the Negroes treated me with great warmth. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

“That old bland thing again? Why them white folks like the lady-fingers so much? I can make a dozen cakes taste better ’n that.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

The sneakers I saw were in dull colors like gray, tan, black, or white. Taking Flight: From War Orphan to Star Ballerina 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

The aircraft came closer, so that the boys could make out the markings on the wings and the white helmets of the pilots in the cockpits. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

“There are different rules for black and white at Permian.” Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her hair was mostly as black as mine, with an inch of white roots. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, it was a white lie,” Old Joe says, as if reading my thoughts. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Chiron pointed to an outdoor pavilion framed in white Grecian columns on a hill overlooking the sea. The Lightning Thief 2005-07-01T00:00:00Z

Another wiggle, and they ease into line so that the horses are now alternating black and white. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

The crooked guardians and administrators of Osage estates were typically among the most prominent white citizens: businessmen and ranchers and lawyers and politicians. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

The flames are not yellow or orange, but white as snow as they dance. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

He was ramrod tall, and gaunt, with thinning white hair, bushy black eyebrows, and a mouth that looked as though it had never smiled. The Dead and the Gone 2008-05-04T00:00:00Z

Some big white thing was striking at Woundwort, who was cowering and guarding his head as best he could. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

His long, white- blond hair hangs in dirty strings, and he doesn't even seem to notice that some of it is plastered across his face. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

The white man is in no moral position to accuse anyone else of hate! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

During the heyday of the Ku Klux Klan, its members took pride in publicly disparaging anybody who wasn’t a conservative white Christian. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

“But those frames come with pictures of white people, and the outside child is not white. She’s colored.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

People, white folk anyway, would sit around waiting for news to come about the war. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’re a guy. You come from money, you’re white, you have really good teeth, you graduated from Yale, the list goes on.” Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Where blacks merely maintained they were issuing warnings, whites heard implicit promises of violence. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

All down the block trees were wrapped in twinkling white lights for the holidays. The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street 2017-10-03T00:00:00Z

The huge white animal looked frozen on the shoreline, as motionless as the stones under its giant paws. Touching Spirit Bear 2001-01-09T00:00:00Z

You rarely see white people in Garden Heights, but when you do they’re usually at Reuben’s. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

On that wagon sat two people, one an older man dressed all in black, with a white prayer shawl across his shoulders, a book in his lap. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside, the walls were white tile, and the building had a disinfectant smell to it. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

She came to the stage, looking beautiful in a white silk blazer. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

His face was grim, his eyes intense and focused on the white box ten feet in front of him. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

As they rode, the empty sky and snow melted into each other, making Pinmei feel as if they were sailing on a vast white sea. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

I walk over to find the green Jell-O powder and there’s sweet Louvenia in her white uniform looking at peanut butter. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Even the Silkworm, looking white and thin and completely exhausted, came creeping out of the tunnel to watch this miraculous ascent. James and the Giant Peach 1961-11-01T00:00:00Z

Blacks fall at least a rung below their white counterparts because of the wealth factor alone.” Class Matters 2005-09-02T00:00:00Z

I wondered what would have been the situation had he been playing against a white South African. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You not a little white girl. You going to see.” It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

The wind was light, the seas were calm, and although they saw the glitter of those great snow white wings more than once, the birds were wary and stayed well clear. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

My eyes had focused only upon the white men and Dr. Bledsoe. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The walls, the high-beamed ceiling, the wooden floors, and the thick carpets were all varying shades of white. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

As October turned whiter and colder, Mrs. Cobb turned whiter and colder, too. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

He was viewed as a friend by protest leaders and was included in many strategy meetings, where he offered advice about how white town leaders might react to black demands and actions. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He did not stop until he got to Odim Street and past the bush with the white flowers. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

I turned to look and saw that Keth-Selhan’s left hind foot had a distinct white sock that went halfway up to his hock. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

She loved the news because her husband had a low, clear voice, and she said that if he were hakujin—white—he could work as a newsman on TV He wasn’t home now. Kira-Kira 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

Standing so close, odors of her body rose up to me from her white uniform, a mingling of hickory-smoked flesh, gardenia talcum and sweat. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The saint drank a Mg gulp of his white whisky and spat in the fire. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had all the rules printed out on a little white note card. Joey Pigza Swallowed the Key 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Even the one space where once there was a window, the only window, is boarded up, and there’s even more of the waxy white paper stuck to the house. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

When the rough cotton pokes were filled, our hands clawed raw and our hair and shoulders tufted with white, we believed we’d done our part. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her face was thin and white, her features elegant. Lyddie 1991-02-01T00:00:00Z

They had been riding off with the other pups, but Jon had heard a noise and turned back, and there he was, white fur almost invisible against the drifts. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

As soon as he reached the white building, the kids around us seemed to exhale the collective breath they had been holding, turning to each other with confused whispers. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

And all around heaven were groups of angels—all of them white people. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Snow lay upon all their heads, like fluffy white caps. Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows 2007-07-21T00:00:00Z

I hear the words Ole Miss and on the fuzzy screen I see white men in dark suits crowding the camera, sweat running off their bald heads. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I grab a white bedsheet from the pile of folded linens and carry it back to the corridor. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

Proof positive of our vulnerability would come when I observed white people saying insulting things to Papa, Mama, and Grandma. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Then the great carts followed, rumbling with their spiked wooden wheels, drawn by horses or slow white oxen. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

Instead, a white stripe runs diagonally across their chests and their armbands are gray. Legend 2011-11-29T00:00:00Z

It’d be a beautiful day, with that clear blue sky and those fluffy white clouds, if it weren’t for the fact that Sandy is missing and no one knows what happened to him. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

I could see her tiny white teeth, baby teeth. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

We had agreed to wear white carnations to identify each other, and the porter kept my flower in the diner’s Frigidaire until we reached the small hot town. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They’ve been drilling it into our heads that a swastika isn’t just anti-Jewish, it’s anti-everybody—including a lot of white people who don’t live or think the same way as the white supremacists.” Linked 2021-07-20T00:00:00Z

In Highlands North the white never took flight. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

Her eyes were wide open, cloudy white and darting around the room. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He was a white man, with a face that spoke of hard times. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Come quickly!” she said, her voice high and quavering, every limb trembling, her face white. The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage 2017-10-19T00:00:00Z

He looked up and, out of priestly habit, smiled benignantly at Milton, his white teeth appearing in the great bush of black beard. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She was fully clothed, as if she had not slept at all; her white face also seem to indicate that. The Metamorphosis 1915-01-01T00:00:00Z

We're cutting through the side streets and heading down to the pond, all cold and white and frozen. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

And just before it, the white clapboard building becomes visible halfway up a small ridge. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Harry glanced into the crystal ball but saw nothing but swirling white mist. Harry Potter And The Prisoner Of Azkaban 1999-07-08T00:00:00Z

It was brown and white, a sober and respectable room that looked to Shadow as if it had last been decorated in 1920. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The details and symbols of your life have been deliberately constructed to make you believe what white people say about you. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

I could not fathom the extent of the hatred some whites had for black people. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

The men in the white hoods were now all raising their arms to the sky, and they cried out as one, but their exact words were muffled by cloth and wind. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The two middle-aged, rural white women spent so much time together that they could finish each other's sentences without even seeming to notice. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

On the side of the road stood a white marble statue—a life-size muscular man with curly hair, no arms, and an irritated expression. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

As a present, he had brought with him from the Midwest a child, half Chinese and half white. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Simon put out his hand, timidly, to touch Ralph; but Ralph started to run, splashing through the shallow end of the bathing pool, across the hot, white sand and under the palms. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

The principal, a woman with white hair and an iron face, looked down at him. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

I made it clear that was the devilish white man’s idea of kicks. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I tried paying attention to Mr. Gunthrie’s lecture on British literature, but the side of Miles’s face had turned chalky white and was morphing into sickly green. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

With his long dark hair and hooded white chaulnot, riding a spectral with panache and speaking Unseen as though his smoky voice were made for it, Lazlo could almost pass for one of the Tizerkane. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

Immediately, their faces and bodies were covered with hundreds of white scars—all shaped like the grains of rice that had rained upon them. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Verily, black and white workers did not fight each other because they hated each other, but they hated each other because they fought each other. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s been almost two weeks since I wrote about Ivy seeing the woman in white leaving Poppy Cottage. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

He looks out of place in a servant’s white shirt and jacket, gloves on his hands. Dread Nation 2018-04-03T00:00:00Z

“My father and mother did. I was born afterward. I think it’s white. Anyway, I know one thing. We don’t want to go back. We don’t want to get caught.” Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH 1970-06-01T00:00:00Z

A man with black curls and a short-sleeved white shirt slams him against the wall. Ghost Boys 2018-04-17T00:00:00Z

I grip the side of the bench I’m sitting on so hard that my knuckles turn white. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

She smiled and counted, only making it to two before lightning washed her room white. Ivy Aberdeen’s Letter to the World 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

While the three men wrote their answers, two others, white men, sauntered into the office. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Despite their victory at the polls, blacks continued to lose jobs to returning white veterans. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

I’d stood there in my shiny white kitchen while my lungs collapsed into black holes and my brain exploded. Anthem of a Reluctant Prophet 2007-04-30T00:00:00Z

Some faces were white, like clean plates; other black like ebony. In the Year of the Boar and Jackie Robinson 1984-10-12T00:00:00Z

The white kids stared at me in the cafeteria as I gobbled down the horrible school lunch. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well, that was awful,” said Javier, who was brushing off the front of his white T-shirt. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

But when he glanced up, he saw Ygritte watching with eyes as wide and white as hen's eggs. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

They made white fangs on the cliffs, not as they burst up, but as the water streamed down. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

I did not trust the white man, and neither did I trust Harrison. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He encounters a man wearing a white straw hat on a horse. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

So far, Gandhi was being a lawyer, an advocate, pleading with whites to offer better treatment for Indians. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

Everyone of any import, from Jesus to George Washington, was white. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

Even their skin was paler, their hair more white than yellow. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Oh, dear,” sighed Major Danby, and began dabbing ineffectually at his careworn brow with a folded white handkerchief. Catch-22 1961-11-10T00:00:00Z

On that day, white South Africans celebrate the defeat of the great Zulu leader Dingane at the Battle of Blood River in 1838. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

A ragged line of chopped nettles on the grass marked her progress, as did the stinging white bumps on her feet and ankles. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

I could see her little white ears, like white cutworms curled underneath the hair. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

Cabot could see the white stick sitting on the edge of the counter, a bold blue check in its center. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

But as I poised, uneasy, with a dry throat, the smooth white path from my feet to his feet blurred. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

From his rucksack the locksmith produces a loaf of bread and some links of white sausage and they eat these quietly and then he lifts her feet into his lap. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

She was somewhat notorious for having sung “I’m an Old Cowhand” in a cabaret while wearing only a white cowboy hat, a white swimsuit, and high heels. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

The box heels of her scuffed white sandals were worn away on the insides, and caused her feet to slope in, towards each other. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

His school uniform, blue shorts, and white shirt with the St. Nicholas badge blazing from his left breast still had the ironed lines running down the front and back. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

These studies have shown that youth of color are more likely to be arrested, detained, formally charged, transferred to adult court, and confined to secure residential facilities than their white counterparts. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

This looked like the Indians circling the wagons again, but this time it was Byron who had to be the white people! The Watsons Go to Birmingham 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ishmael followed her through a dell of ferns where white morning glory blossoms dotted the forest floor. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

Found the glamour of a press and curl, a slender skirt, and crisp white gloves. Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Everywhere there were tiny white bones glowing in the darkness. The Tale of Despereaux: Being the Story of a Mouse, a Princess, Some Soup and a Spool of Thread 2003-08-25T00:00:00Z

A growing number of white Americans expressed alarm over the Osage’s wealth—outrage that was stoked by the press. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

Blood spots begin to emerge on the white bedsheets covering it. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Never mind that white children on the other side of town who made precisely the same choices—often for less compelling reasons—are in fact going to college. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

As I noticed it, one of the whites tore it from her. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

They argued that students should have a greater say on issues affecting their education and recommended that the School Board be enlarged to include four students—two black and two white. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Out of the haze, Lita stands, her long white dress and loose hair whipping in the wind. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

He was young, wearing long denim shorts and a white tank top. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The list a them reasons why white folk and colored folk can’t be sharing a seat. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

She had worked for so many years in the dark, her face was chalk white and her blue veins were visible through her skin. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then slowly the whale sank, the water closing quietly along its black and white back. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

She had the most beautiful white hair Marly had ever seen. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

“Then why is she wearing a white dress?” Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

The scars at his neck glowed almost white in the moonlight. The Reader 2016-01-12T00:00:00Z

After all, he was black and she was white. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“I know so. You think those white teachers are going to teach all children the truth about what the Negro has contributed to this country?” Betty Before X 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The company church, the one most of the white people in town went to, was set down on a little grassy knob. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

The grounds, in places, bore signs of the geometric Victorian trimness which had been their original form: drained fish-pools; the long white colonnades of skeleton pergolas; rock-bordered parterres where flowers no longer grew. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

In the white water at the foot of the dam it was deep. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

He’s white, midthirties to early forties, has a brown buzz cut and a thin scar over his top lip. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

They decorated the apartment with pink and white tissue streamers and laid out beautiful trays of delicate sandwiches, entres, cake, and coffee, and Rev. Brown stopped over to join us. The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sun faded to a pale white bloom. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

As if she wasn’t black at all, or he wasn’t white, or as if all that didn’t matter. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Muttering obscenities, he tries to dab off the white spots. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

Taking our cue from the courageous civil rights advocates who brazenly refused to defend themselves, marching unarmed past white mobs that threatened to kill them, we, too, must be the change we hope to create. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Cold water seeped into my right shoe, soaking my white cotton socks. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Where the white Mist met the dark smoke of Clytius, it steamed and sizzled, like lava rolling into the sea. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

They stood in a quiet huddle while all the fine white men and women paid their respects to the beloved father. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

And then I was back in uniform—this time, khaki shorts and a white shirt. How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

She straightens her creased white pants and makes her way toward the door. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we sank through wispy white clouds, leafless dead trees appeared, leaning out of the water like spears. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

He had often come upon his wife gliding through the sitting rooms, in her white tunic, with her young girl’s laugh. The House of the Spirits: A Novel 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

The white world tilted at a sharp angle and the icy wind shot past his face. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

She has a sweet, worried face and a frilly blue and white checked apron, just like a TV mother’s. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

I’m closer to the white sheet—to the body. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

The placard had been there on that day too. brad bolitar, it read, in plain black ink on a white index card in a weather-protected plastic case. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Fresh red tulips in crystal vases sit on white lace doilies on each table. Blended 2018-10-30T00:00:00Z

Katie managed to buy her white kid slippers and a pair of long white silk stockings. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still, North Carolina’s white population would likely have accepted integrated schools if the state’s new governor had used his position to push for such a path. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Mom was wearing a white bathing suit that showed off her figure and her skin, which was dark from the Arizona sun. The Glass Castle 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

The snow is melting, and white rapids splash against picturesque rocks, and spring gives the late afternoon a sweet yellow light. A Heart in a Body in the World 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

The white and yellow roses planted in old buckets are thriving despite the drought, because tía Fermina cares for them as if they were children. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The only thing I leave alone is the ceiling, because white contains all the wavelengths of the visible spectrum at full brightness. All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

The white kids I’d met that morning, they went in one direction, the black kids went in another direction, and I was left standing in the middle, totally confused. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

He turns instead to the big white truck in his driveway. A Bird Will Soar 2021-10-19T00:00:00Z

They crossed the busy street and followed the white tents around the side of the building to the pier, where a maze of additional tents stretched ahead of them. Book Scavenger 2015-06-02T00:00:00Z

They were not allowed to vote, to sit on a jury, or to testify against a white man in court. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

We can only venture a guess, by analogy with witnessed events in modern times when steel-toting white farmers collided with stone tool-using hunter-gatherers of Aboriginal Australia and Indian California. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

On one of the tables there are some thumbed Reader's Digest and Maclean's magazines, and on another an ashtray, white with a rosebud trim. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

As she came closer, Pinmei’s anger reignited, for Amah had a white cloth tied around her mouth. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

It seemed to me, in fact, like something more or less invented by white people and stuck onto the front end of grown-up life like a frill on a dress. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I felt that moment when we left the ground, and the fair fell away below us, and ahead of us was nothing but the towering white clouds. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

In the same way that we, for white people, were the descendants of Ham, and were cursed forever, white people were, for us, the descendants of Cain. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

On the Race IAT, I was rated as having a “moderate automatic preference for whites.” Blink 2005-01-11T00:00:00Z

A middle-aged man in a white kurta and gray topi points at me. Internment 2019-03-07T00:00:00Z

I was wearing what used to be a pair of simple white Nikes, but I’d drawn all over them. A Very Large Expanse of Sea 2018-10-16T00:00:00Z

Neville was getting more than a few suspicious glares from the mostly white students. Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

I called in fright, “Lucy! Lucy!” and something raised a head, and from where I was I could see a white face and red, gleaming eyes. Dracula 1897-05-26T00:00:00Z

There was something white in the corners of his mouth, but I didn’t ask what it might be. Where Things Come Back 2011-05-03T00:00:00Z

Given the charged relations between white societies and native peoples, inquiry into Indian culture and history is inevitably contentious. 1491 2005-10-10T00:00:00Z

It ran along a street and had been built so the whites who lived on the edge of Niggertown would not have to see it. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She has the most perfect helmet hair and the straightest, whitest teeth I’ve ever seen. The House That Lou Built 2018-06-12T00:00:00Z

I’d rigged it up myself: a sandbag painted white, a pulley system. The Things They Carried 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

She always had a pair of scissors hanging by a white tape from her waist, and with this she began shaving thin slivers of soap into the palm of one hand. Boy: Tales of a Childhood 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bigger’s eyes watched the balled newspaper in a white man’s gloved hand. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

A bead of blood emerged from the white fur and ran down the smooth steel. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

He was handcuffed, his legs were chained, and again he was led to the white van. Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

The gazebo was furnished with white wicker love seats and chairs. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

“Since you’ve got the license you can keep the restaurant open,” they said, “but you’ll need to have separate toilets for every racial category. You’ll need white toilets, black toilets, colored toilets, and Indian toilets.” Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

The ripples spread across it, erasing all traces of the Lilim; now the pool reflected only the sky over the Barrens and the faint white clouds far above them. Stardust 1998-10-01T00:00:00Z

Spaulding represented a new kind of Southern black businessman, eschewing the servile role whites demanded of blacks. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

I remember that she was always fluttering like a big, white bird—around my father, and he too heavy and tired to escape her pecking. Flowers for Algernon 1959-05-01T00:00:00Z

To San Franciscans “the City That Knows How” was the Bay, the fog, Sir Francis Drake Hotel, Top o’ the Mark, Chinatown, the Sunset District and so on and so forth and so white. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

What skin the corpse lord showed was white, save for a bloody blotch that crept up his neck onto his cheek. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“If we unite and work together, we can and will bring down this evil system. We can defeat the whites. Unity is strength.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Dressed in his prison whites, Myers once again appeared small and sad to me as he climbed up onto the witness stand. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

As soon as I’ve dressed, I make my way warily down the hall, a white bundle under my arm, trying hard to ignore the sanitary pad I’m wearing. Before We Were Free 2002-08-13T00:00:00Z

The fetterling exploded into bits of metal and that same weird white fluff that floated up into the sky. Tristan Strong Punches a Hole in the Sky 2019-10-15T00:00:00Z

During the day, I kept my distance from Michael as it would have seemed exceedingly curious if a white professional man and an African houseboy were having regular conversations. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here are Mr. and Mrs. Roodveldt, I presume, cradling a baby in a white dress, behind a table with a cake on it. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

Quentin and I saw their reflections in the case when they came up behind us—Buck and some of the other football boys, looking huge in their green and white letter jackets. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

He said, “Why is the hive white? Why not red or purple or whatever?” Bone Gap 2015-03-03T00:00:00Z

Two swift hours passed, and now the king sat upon his white horse, glimmering in the half-light. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

This time, though, when she disappeared into the white hall, he was glad enough to let her go. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sure, it was all a game and white people knew how to play it. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The arm on that same side was big as a log and crawling with white worms. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Barrius falls to the white stones, the pool of blood around him spreading rapidly. An Ember in the Ashes 2015-04-28T00:00:00Z

Between the blazing white banks of the town stores, among the tree silences, a black tide flowed. The Martian Chronicles 1950-01-01T00:00:00Z

A mantelpiece bare of ornaments save for an enormous block of white marble shaped like a bear, a piece of modern sculpture in which was inset a clock. And Then There Were None 1939-11-06T00:00:00Z

He took a white handkerchief out of his pocket and touched it to Reuven’s bloody knee thoughtfully. The Devil's Arithmetic 1988-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her other teeth had grown into thin white needles. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

Last of all he took down his long white cloak and fastened it about his shoulders. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

I kept my eye on those white lines. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Similarly, black community residents who might have been inspired to challenge aggressive stop-and-frisk policies of a largely white police department may worry about “hurting” a black police chief. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

For the first time, white mobs were met by black mobs as they patrolled the streets. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Perhaps a few moralists were disappointed that it was economics and not ethics that triumphed over racist ideology, but clearly economic pressure achieved better results than black appeals to white morality. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

She made a little pillow with stuffing from an old mattress and cloth from a white flour sack. The Circuit: Stories from the Life of a Migrant Child 1997-10-01T00:00:00Z

He lifted his head and let out so deep a breath that a white plume stayed suspended from his mouth. Silent To The Bone 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The room was roughly the size of our house, and was elaborately decorated with posters, pennants of various white soccer and cricket teams, rock stars and photographs of Clyde in various stages of development. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was holding the blue rice bowl with the white rabbit painted on it. When the Sea Turned to Silver 2016-10-04T00:00:00Z

Before any more could be said, Mr. Benedict opened his eyes, blinked a few times, and ran his fingers through his tousled white hair. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

Her oars left a long white wake behind her. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“Just watch me get a quarter from the first white man I see,” he told me as I stood in the elevator that morning. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

His complexion is white—he does not tan; he does not burn. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I caught my breath and ran through the crowds of children, firefighters, police officers, attack dogs, white tanks, and Bull Connor and found my way into the church basement. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

I was interrogated for almost two hours by a white man who had in front of him a dossier containing every fact of my life. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Then mourning and weeping loudly they went to the graves, the laborers and Ching following and walking and wearing white shoes. The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

Black defendant and white victim pairings increased the likelihood of a death sentence even more. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

Eye, who was brown, blinked his huge eyes, which were all pupil inside and no white. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

There we sat, draped like tired bridesmaids with our yards of white veil, numbed by the airplane’s horrible noise, skimming above the treetops. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

When the number of incoming African Americans in a particular neighborhood reached a certain point — 20 percent, say — sociologists observed that the community would “tip”: most of the remaining whites would leave almost immediately. The Tipping Point 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

A man in a white coat was reading the dials. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

That evening, white gangs assaulted black stockyard workers as they headed home. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

He was in a great, billowing white cloud, floating in the whiteness, and there were huge buckets of water being thrown on him. The Voyage Of The Frog 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

I took out a sheet of the stationery—it was fancy white paper with one dark purple line going around the perimeter. From the Desk of Zoe Washington 2020-01-14T00:00:00Z

He thought of Rick, the white college boy he and James had liked so much. The Contender 1967-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harry said, startled to see her face so white and terrified. Harry Potter And The Goblet Of Fire 2000-07-08T00:00:00Z

When I first visited the homes of whites, I was often dumbfounded by the number and nature of questions that children asked of their parents — and their parents’ unfailing willingness to answer them. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Who said it was okay for the white folks to have permission to touch everything whenever and wherever they wanted? March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

She is white, and she is Anise’s friend and sits at the table where Anise sits, but I’ve never seen her speak before in my life. Hurricane Child 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

No. No. Now it is Bon who watches Henry; he can see the whites of Henry’s eyes again as he sits looking at Henry with that expression which might be called smiling. Absalom, Absalom! 1936-01-01T00:00:00Z

Harriet mentioned the fact of his death to the white woman in the faded sunbonnet, the next time she saw her. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

But children do not comprehend the complexity of the situation; they simply see their father being taken away by the white authorities without an explanation. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

The brother goes through his bag and pulls out this little white statue that don’t look nothing like Malcolm, and Mtisha gives me a look. Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

The white attorney knew how to deal with the older black male business elite. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The tendency has really been, insofar as this was possible, to dismiss white people as the slightly mad victims of their own brainwashing. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Other grandmothers with their sensible shoes, poufs of white hair, and flowery smells were nothing like Nan. Hope Springs 2021-08-10T00:00:00Z

I wanna ask, What in the world do you know about doing black hair, white lady? Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

The white students also expressed their feelings about the troops. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

You can see the whites of her eyes, and she's not even trying to get away anymore. Freak The Mighty 1993-10-01T00:00:00Z

I could not make out the white viewpoint in Montgomery. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spaulding, like the majority of the black elite in Durham—and throughout the nation—didn’t challenge the system of white domination so much as attempt to work within it. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

“Richard, don’t mention this to the other white men,” he said. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

For the hockey mask, I do the same thing, except I paint it white and black. Free Lunch 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

Here is a powerful white man, I thought as I listened, the leader of our nation, standing up for the rights of my people! While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

She also found the mask I’d worn at Father’s wedding, white with tiny white beads along its edges. Ella Enchanted 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

Crab put the squirrels back in his hunting bag, and Grandpop put the burgers between pieces of white bread. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

When other passers-by stepped around the bundle wrapped in white silk, the anonymous scholar of Hanchow took it home. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I said to myself, “We are lucky no white folks know about us.” The Color of Water: A Black Man's Tribute to His White Mother 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

“You’ve been at it a while. I thought you might be thirsty. There’s white grape juice in the fridge.” George 2015-08-25T00:00:00Z

Later that day, the news began to spread that the Headmistress had recovered from her fainting-fit and had then marched out of the school building tight-lipped and white in the face. Matilda 1988-10-01T00:00:00Z

Across the street, Mr. Thirsty stood in his doorway in a white bartender’s apron. The Ear, the Eye, and the Arm 1994-04-01T00:00:00Z

A faint carving of the Henka Games logo covers one of the white walls. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

A burly white man in a union jacket charged through a line of people, fists flying. The Rock and the River 2009-01-06T00:00:00Z

There were two white men and eight of my people whose facial expressions told me I had a lot to worry about. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There were other questions, too, like what the relation was between her and the little white kids that she watched and also between her and her “daddy,” who plain as day was not her daddy. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

First thing a white lady gone do is fire you. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I sat on a hunk of granite and put the sketch pad on my lap, opening to a drawing of the great white shark, with its pointy teeth and charcoal-black throat. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Don’t even bother telling a white conservative about anything racist that happened to you. Americanah 2013-05-14T00:00:00Z

Through the Troll Hole, a white light blinded me. Paper Towns 2008-10-16T00:00:00Z

In the guest bathroom, I clean the cut, cover it with a white bandage. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I did not regard the verdict as a vindication of the legal system or evidence that a black man could get a fair trial in a white man’s court. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

While the wheels of his oldVolvo wagon spit gravel down Smith Street, I wondered what would happen if Dad saw a great white while diving off Cape Ann. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

I look down at my white stomach, then up at my brother. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

The suit itself was made of Tyvek, a slick, white fabric that is resistant to moisture and dust. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

He flinched, face white as a sheet, when I came toward him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

He watches as she floats the white gardenias in her bath and rubs her thighs and breasts with walnut oil. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stopped talking to Grandma about my dissatisfaction with white people and their rules. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

A brilliant dawn broke through the morning dew, caressed every shadow, and lifted the fog to reveal a floor of white clouds dotting an azure sky. Summer of the Mariposas 2012-10-20T00:00:00Z

Upon their western sides the grass was white as with a drifted snow: small flowers sprang there like countless stars amid the turf. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

“You know, from what you have just heard, that no white money finances The Honorable Elijah Muhammad and his program—to ‘advise’ him and ‘contain’ him! The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

With her braided hair and white dress, she seemed to glow in the moonlight. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

As she walked along the rising road that bordered the sea, Lupita’s eyes smarted from the sharp brightness of the blue water and the white surf curling onto the beach many feet below. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

Golden lifts and spiral staircases take passengers up to the highest stores—some are hidden by the thickening white clouds. The Belles 2018-02-06T00:00:00Z

His eyes shifted back and forth like he meant to memorize us, his face white with rage or terror. The City Beautiful 2021-10-05T00:00:00Z

Ringing the atrium, the second-storey balconies were empty except for potted azaleas hanging from the white metal railings. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

And the white man’s second most pervading dread was his image of the black man entering the body of the white woman. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He lived alone, in a nondescript apartment near his lab in London, and in a spare, white modernist cottage that he had built for himself in Brighton. The Gene 2016-06-02T00:00:00Z

Mama got some clean white rags and bound up the place. Old Yeller 1956-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Why should white people be paid to fight our war anyway?” Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Around me, I saw students flaming out—white, black, privileged or not. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

If they were, definitely not with as much clarity and depth as among whites. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

For a 20-year-old, white child of the working class, Those horizons were far closer than I like to admit. Geeks: How Two Lost Boys Rode the Internet Out of Idaho 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jack's face went so white that the freckles showed as clear, brown flecks. Lord of the Flies 1954-09-17T00:00:00Z

Red and white lights sprayed out of the green. Julie of the Wolves 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He touched the sharp blade to the throat, just touched it, as if expecting the knife to cut the white flesh of itself, as if he did not have to put pressure behind it. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The days were shorter now, and the white sunlight cold as it settled onto the field and thought about dropping frost. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

In addition, more than 52 percent of the shootouts between extremists and police now involve white extremists. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

I took a seat beside white men at the counter and the waitress smiled at me. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The courtroom, an unpretentious chamber situated on the third floor of the Finney County Courthouse, has dull white walls and furnishings of darkly varnished wood. In Cold Blood 1966-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was formed like a dove, but his color was dark and hard to tell in the moonlight; at any rate, he showed up clearly on the white sand. The Amber Spyglass 2000-10-10T00:00:00Z

“Yo, Slam, you here to see us tear up these white boys?” Slam! 1996-11-01T00:00:00Z

Rocking on the porch, she had seen the white dot swinging back and forth in the sun when the boy wasn’t much more than a moving spot far down the road. Sounder 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Jam could see it now, huge in the dimness of her room, glinting gold and glowing splattered white. Pet 2019-09-10T00:00:00Z

To my astonishment, I came upon something very different: not a small variation such as red eyes instead of white, or neck bristles instead of no neck bristles. Cosmos 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Each weekday morning Durham’s white neighborhoods were invaded by an army of black women—all dressed in identical gray-and-white maid’s uniforms. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

He showed Chamberlain the new brigade flag: triangular, white, with a blue border, a red Maltese Cross in the center. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

He turned the corpse over with his foot, and the dead white face stared up at the overcast sky with blue, blue eyes. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Werner sees no tracks, only a humped swale of glitter in the moonlight, and the white forest beyond. All the Light We Cannot See 2014-05-06T00:00:00Z

Each of us felt the same shame, felt how foolish and weak we were in the face of the domination of the whites. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Charles turned away; he was almost as white as she was, and I wondered if that old story was true, that one twin felt pain when the other was injured. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

These measures effectively eliminated the risk of future alliances between black slaves and poor whites. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

A poster warns whites about the consequences of voting for Bill Thompson. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He was unconcerned with making the people who believed they were white comfortable in their belief. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The doors faced out on a barren, floodlit terrace—black cinder, privet in concrete urns, a statue artfully broken in white pieces on the ground. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

She warmed the pale white beeswax over a candle, poured it carefully, and watched as the eunuch stamped each letter with the direwolf of House Stark. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

White board members were speaking to convince the parents of our community not to send their children to white schools. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but the white school does. That’s why I use their track at night.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

From the opposite end, a huge, blond woman in a starched white uniform was coming toward him, carrying a vase of longstemmed, red roses. Nine Stories 1953-04-06T00:00:00Z

Joseph Goebbels’s little girls, wearing long white dresses and white headbands, presented Hitler with a bouquet of flowers. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I turned it over and sure enough, there’s my baby white girl done colored herself black. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

My bedroom was decked out in white wicker furniture and a trendy daybed. Americanized 2018-02-08T00:00:00Z

She wore a white shirtwaist and black skirt that accentuated her trim figure, and she was seated beside a window, her hair candescent with sunlight. The Devil in the White City 2003-02-11T00:00:00Z

Because of the universal respect the regent enjoyed — from both black and white — and the seemingly untempered power that he wielded, I saw chieftaincy as being the very center around which life revolved. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I brought up the appalling behavior at Sebokeng and the police’s unequal treatment of blacks and whites; police used live ammunition with black demonstrators, while they never unsheathed their guns at white right-wing protests. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There are no whites in its eyes, just a black gleam. Divergent 2011-04-25T00:00:00Z

A black man in a white coat came up to me, jerked my right arm, and smeared it above the elbow with an acid ointment. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

His dagger went on one hip, his longsword on the other, hung from a white leather belt with golden buckles. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

His black hat, pants, and vest were dusty and the homemade white shirt rusty with tobacco juice. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

There was gray in the black of his body and legs, and each of the eyes on his ugly, pin- cered head was milky white. Harry Potter And The Chamber Of Secrets 1998-07-02T00:00:00Z

Most of the oil field work was for whites only, but because of the oil there were fat cats to chauffeur, dance halls to clean, ditches to dig, pipes to lay. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

Most of the tables have a triangle of colorful balls all laid out and waiting, plus one white ball at the opposite end. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

C.P. himself seemed a bit conciliatory later, admitting that another cause of tension was "acts of agitation by—yes—by whites against blacks." The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

When the white supremacist David Duke ran for the U.S. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The little girl did not look at the howling crowd but from the side the whites of her eyes showed like those of a frightened fawn. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

He's wearing a white dhoti instead of a lungee, which marks him as one of the few remaining Hindus in Poshora. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

She is the one who wrote the woman in the white cloak into the story, after all. How to Disappear Completely 2020-04-28T00:00:00Z

Bounded by Central Park to the south, and lying between the Hudson and East Rivers, it was built up in the 1890s as an ultramodern urban environment for middle- and upper-class whites. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Amelia reaches her side, and Serenity holds up a large white rectangle. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

It landed in dirt beyond the centerfielder’s leap and rolled onto the parking lot, a white pureness against the black macadam. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

And if he had missed it, were not the whites to blame for it? Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I now understood what had been to me a most perplexing difficulty—to wit, the white man’s power to enslave the black man. Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass 1845-05-01T00:00:00Z

After apartheid fell, my father moved from Hillbrow to Yeoville, a formerly quiet, residential neighborhood that had transformed into this vibrant melting pot of black and white and every other hue. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

As a child, when I looked at it, sometimes I imagined a tall doctor in a white coat banging on a sheet of metal with a hammer. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

Where the deer had been was a pile of clean white bones. The Sea of Monsters 2006-04-01T00:00:00Z

The priests approach them, carrying torches, their shaggy white heads bent, obsequious. Grendel 1971-01-01T00:00:00Z

Neither Mother nor Grandmother ever once stepped aside to let a white person pass. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“But white sports officials across the country are working around the clock to get the government to act fast.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

“There’s no hurry. The new, strange life among the whites will wait. It will be there.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

“Excuse me, Your Honor. Only credible because they’re from a rich, white private school. But my son, the defendant, doesn’t lie.” Black Brother, Black Brother 2020-03-03T00:00:00Z

I thought for a moment, ripping the crust in my hand open to pick the soft white bread out of the crunchy part. Patina 2017-08-29T00:00:00Z

“Ain’t you learned to say sir to a white man yet?” Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Upon a stake in the middle was set a great goblin head; upon its shattered helm the white badge could still be seen. The Two Towers 1954-11-11T00:00:00Z

The little white goat flicked his tail and stared at her, then bleated again. Anya and the Dragon 2019-09-24T00:00:00Z

Speaking a certain way—the “white” way, as some would have it—was perceived as a betrayal, as being uppity, as somehow denying our culture. Becoming 2018-11-13T00:00:00Z

His father was a wealthy white planter and engineer who recognized that the boy whom he had fathered with a free woman of color was unusually smart. Sugar Changed the World: A Story of Magic, Spice, Slavery, Freedom, and Science 2010-11-15T00:00:00Z

“Not because it enfranchises black men, but because it does not enfranchise all women, black and white.” Votes for Women! 2018-02-13T00:00:00Z

He plunged a scoop in a bucket and threw some sort of white powder at us. Between Shades of Gray 2011-03-22T00:00:00Z

The straps were scalloped; white and pink embroidery decorated the waist. We Are Okay 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

She pauses and gives my red, white, and blue outfit a not-so-friendly once-over. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

Blood dripped from his wounds and fell on the white oak leaves. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The new proslavery argument, then, drew on assumptions about the white Anglo-Saxon character of the emerging American nation that were latent but long-standing. Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation 2000-10-17T00:00:00Z

He came slinking down the steps, the front of his white hooded sweatshirt stained with his own blood. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I looked down at the yellow legs sticking out of the unfamiliar white silk pajamas they had dressed me in. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Overhead, the sky brightened from night to early morning white haze. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

“It was about the size of a person. It slid down the far wall and was gone. A dusty cloud of white.” Shadowshaper 2015-06-30T00:00:00Z

Since I had been a Muslim, this was the first time any white people really got to me in a personal way. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

He is pure white with four black feet, and it makes me laugh. Shouting at the Rain 2019-05-07T00:00:00Z

On the left, large white houses with long columns and graceful verandas ruled the approach to the river with mute elegance. The Great Santini 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

She had been pared down like this before, when she had travelled up the mountains into rare snow—alone in white not unlike being alone in black. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

I knew the ghetto instinctively extends that trust only to one who had demonstrated that he would never sell them out to the white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I take the orange and white ticket with the six magic numbers out of Uhmma’s purse. A Step from Heaven 2001-04-30T00:00:00Z

I brooded for a long time about the seemingly causeless beating of the “black” boy by the “white” man and the more questions I asked the more bewildering it all became. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Around a bend, we see a large white farmhouse with Greek pillars, a barn, a silo, and a fenced yard where a dozen or so pickup and farm trucks are parked. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

And anyway, he could hear the sound of children in the distance, which would be the little white kids at the New London school, hollering through their first recess of the year. Out of Darkness 2015-09-01T00:00:00Z

He wore a denim jacket covered with bright sew-on patches, and under the jacket a stained white T-shirt. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

The apartment was blue with smoke, through which the broad expanse of white linoleum was arctic, surreal. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

Suddenly he stooped and looked at the stone on the top of the cairn; it was flatter than the others, and whiter, as if it had escaped the fire. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

The dry cleaner’s on the next block over had been held up, the white owner severely beaten. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

I can’t lie, we get the “why is he dating her” stare that usually comes from rich white girls. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

The first order of business was to escort “persons not well known to the group”—mostly whites and reporters from the white media—out of the building. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

One’s hair snow white, the other’s dyed coal black. The God of Small Things 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course, if meaningful progress is to be made, whites must give up their racial bribes too, and be willing to sacrifice their racial privilege. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

A green, spacious campus with white buildings, great trees streaming Spanish moss. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It seemed impossible to find twelve white men who would convict one of their own for murdering American Indians. Killers of the Flower Moon 2017-04-18T00:00:00Z

While the Bunga was the most influential political body in the Transkei, its resolutions were advisory and its decisions subject to review by white magistrates. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lowered my voice and said to her, “Let me ask you one thing, Mom. When you got home from the hospital that day, did you see the white paint on Erik’s hands?” Tangerine 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bernard stood watching the retreating twinkle of the white stockings, the sunburnt knees vivaciously bending and unbending again, again, and the softer rolling of those well-fitted corduroy shorts beneath the bottle green jacket. Brave New World 1932-01-01T00:00:00Z

Matt reveled in the clean white sheets, the soft pillows, the flower-scented air drifting in from the garden. The House of the Scorpion 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“They have been here since the dinosaurs, but we know almost nothing about them—white sharks especially.” The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

The witch tilted her white head, as if Hazel were a great curiosity. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Something flashed from the corner of the parking lot, then another flash, stinging white light. Burning Blue 2012-10-25T00:00:00Z

“I danced with her. With the lady on the white horse.” The Graveyard Book 2008-09-30T00:00:00Z

From the white landowners above him there had not been handed to him a chance to learn the meaning of loyalty, of sentiment, of tradition. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the long, strange drought we were having in place of last year’s rainy season, soft dust had spread across our yard in broad white patches. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

A white woman gets up from her blanket and starts dancing for no reason at all. Pride 2018-09-18T00:00:00Z

It’s as if the snowflakes are black, the way white is black on a negative. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I had thought that I must mirror the outside world, create a carbon copy of white claims to civilization. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

He was a huge guy with stark white hair, a straw cowboy hat, and a braided white beard—kind of like Father Time, if Father Time went redneck and got totally jacked. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

I still remember, as it was uncommon for white folks to ride out to the colored farms. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

His face was just very stiff, and white. I'm the King of the Castle 1970-09-03T00:00:00Z

And, given the significant overlap between race and class in South Africa, whites, coloreds, and blacks all still made their homes in different locations. The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates 2010-04-27T00:00:00Z

His father said that all white people were wicked, and that God was going to bring them low. Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

His skin is white, and his nose is crooked and has a diamond stud. The Miscalculations of Lightning Girl 2018-05-01T00:00:00Z

I could see glimpses of the long white belly between the bystanders. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

Only the trader on the coast remains, and even he is not the same white man, year in and year out We know because we send him women. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

His father would float in a sea of white ice, his grandfather atop the white palms. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

He went down the front steps and saw' Patrolman Mancuso’s white Rambler parked before the house. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“The white and the black didn’t mix then, not like they do now, which I can’t say I like because I don’t think it’s for the best.” The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Gramps is staring into the dregs of his Styrofoam cup, peeling away the top of it so that little white balls collect in his lap. If I Stay 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

They had a white sale, a remnant sale, an aluminum sale, and a crockery sale all going at the same time. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

How did an unattached white woman occupy herself in South Carolina? The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Out of these deep surrounding shades rose high, and glared white, the piled-up mattresses and pillows of the bed, spread with a snowy Marseilles counterpane. Jane Eyre 1847-10-16T00:00:00Z

I drew the line in fifth grade when my mom sent me to school as the modern-day queen of England in her old yellow suit with my hair curled up high and sprayed white. Dumplin' 2015-09-15T00:00:00Z

Velma T. recovered the goggles, breathed on them, and wiped them with her white lab coat. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Merchants would string tiny white lights up over K Street, where they shone through the night as pretty as heaven. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

A plasterer who had been in his rooms reported them furnished with statues, oil paintings, and white fur rugs. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the bathroom, I stared at the white tile hexagons on the floor and saw nothing but the crud in between them. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

An elderly woman was watching me from a doorstep where she huddled, her dirty white widow’s sari drawn about her. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

“Which is what? Picking up garbage for white people? Delivery boy? Is that what you’ve endured eight years in school for? Is that what I’ve sacrificed so much for?” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The dining pavilion had collapsed into a pile of white rubble, and the Big House was on fire, its windows glowing like demon eyes. The House of Hades 2013-10-08T00:00:00Z

No, it was more like, Do you think it's a good idea for whites and Negroes to go to school together? The Lions of Little Rock 2012-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a particularly vocal older white woman who loudly demanded that I be questioned about items she was missing. Just Mercy 2014-10-21T00:00:00Z

I thought of the Prussian flag, a black eagle on a white background. Salt to the Sea 2016-02-02T00:00:00Z

Whites entered and exited from the front of the bus and sat in the white section in the front. Hidden Figures 2016-09-06T00:00:00Z

Straight and sturdy stairs led up to a little porch and I could see red and white gingham curtains in the windows. Moon Over Manifest 2010-10-12T00:00:00Z

Willie, the colored boy in the kitchen, stood before him dressed in his cap and his long white apron. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

The white towel, which was drawn under my chin and tied over my head, had to be arranged. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The raft was a ten-foot square of logs lashed together with a pole for a mast and a simple white linen sail. The Battle of the Labyrinth 2008-05-06T00:00:00Z

She splatters some butter on the white tablecloth. I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

I looked dubiously at the glass of thick, white liquid. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

New clothes: a pair of tight blue jeans cut down dangerously low and a sliver of white underwear sticking out above them. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

It was propped in the chair with white pillows, yellow foam, and blue towels. Tuesdays with Morrie 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

“WL” was Farmer’s abbreviation for “white liberal,” a group that donated quite generously to Partners in Health but which he now seemed to be claiming was naive. Mountains Beyond Mountains 2013-04-13T00:00:00Z

And he had heard it said that black people, even though they could not get good jobs, paid twice as much rent as whites for the same kind of flats. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

The old monk reached out a white hand and touched the bracelet on Pong's left wrist. A Wish in the Dark 2020-03-24T00:00:00Z

They stood in silence until the white horse emerged, ghostly pale, out of the dark. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

But however it appears, the power of domination and exclusion is central to the belief in being white, and without it, “white people” would cease to exist for want of reasons. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

My favorite is the close-up shot of tiled calligraphy in blue and white. Amina's Song 2021-03-09T00:00:00Z

Dad has scraped out the bitter white stuff with his teeth—according to him, it’s full of vitamins. Liar & Spy 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

My white pieces screamed as they scurried and fell off the board one by one. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

—We should not be terrified when, occasionally, we saw white people about the school, for they would not eat us. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The baby doll’s white skin had been painted the color of midnight, with thick cherry-red lipstick smeared over its small mouth. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

The servers, all young people dressed in white tunics like the one who gave us wine, move wordlessly to and from the table, keeping the platters and glasses full. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Sitting quietly on the floor beside her was the white cat, its large black eyes fastened upon him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Another, who wore an elaborate lace collar and cuffs, looked overdressed even to Amari, who had no knowledge of the fashion of rich white youth. Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

The organizers didn’t want to hand the white establishment ammunition for its perennial allegation that any racial unrest in the South was incited by outside agitators. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The many blacks who now regularly attended city council meetings glared at him but he relished the smiles and nods directed at him by many whites in the audience. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

A handful of young student doctors from a white university ran around all day trying to treat the endless number of black patients. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

The suit has no pant legs or skirt, leaving her white thighs uncovered. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

One school principal observed that black mothers instructed their children “not to take anything from a white child.” A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

It’s large, and as I get closer I make out bits of scarlet, gold brocade, and black and white checks. Water for Elephants 2006-05-26T00:00:00Z

Were white people coming after all of us? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Loganville was more than 90 percent white, and there wasn’t so much as a suntan on the faces of the Liberty Fire or their parents. Outcasts United: An American Town, a Refugee Team, and One Woman's Quest to Make a Difference 2009-04-21T00:00:00Z

It was so cold that my breath hung white in the air. The Name of the Wind 2007-03-27T00:00:00Z

Viola came in wearing a clean white apron and bearing a lemon pound cake on a silver tray. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

In the half-lit gym, the white stripes on the floor and the basketball backboards almost glow. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was a tender plant with flowers like white stars hiding under the leaves, which were like the flower petals but green. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

And I guess I assumed that Blue would be white. Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

Luthuli’s death left a great vacuum in the organization; the chief was a Nobel Prize winner, a distinguished, internationally known figure, a man who commanded respect from both black and white. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Most of those gathered at the meeting had been slaves at one time and knew how oppressive some of the whites around them could be. An American Plague: The True and Terrifying Story of the Yellow Fever Epidemic of 1793 2003-06-23T00:00:00Z

Sierra was using her shiny white library card to mark her place in the book’s pages. Escape from Mr. Lemoncello's Library 2013-06-25T00:00:00Z

Somehow there were rarely white people in the park, never groups of their families, just young couples, if anything. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

I grew up with my teeth clamped on a faith in the big white man in power—God, the President, I don’t care who he is, he’d serve justice! The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a soothing rhythm the way they were put together with crumbly thin lines of white mortar. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The white lending agencies, however, refused to make the loans. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

They killed sixty white persons, men, women and children, found on plantations within a radius of twenty miles. Harriet Tubman: Conductor on the Underground Railroad 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

It is tied with more black and white ribbons, wrapped like a present in light and dark bows. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

While my dad is white, my mom is black. Endangered 2012-10-01T00:00:00Z

He still wore a pair of mechanical pencils clipped to his shirt pocket, just as he had in his professor days, but now he wore a white apron too, and a brown pot holder. Typical American 1991-01-01T00:00:00Z

It had been kept warm with straw, which had been cleared off that morning, and now the close-worn grass sparkled green In the white landscape. The Once and Future King 1958-01-01T00:00:00Z

By pleading not guilty, Claudette would be doing more than just talking back to whites: she would be challenging Jim Crow dead-on. Claudette Colvin: Twice Toward Justice 2009-01-20T00:00:00Z

In the tiring-room, Mr. Heminges was putting more white in his beard for his part as Polonius, and Mr. Shakespeare, dressed all in armor, was touching up his ghostly white makeup. The Shakespeare Stealer 1998-05-01T00:00:00Z

Since white always moves first, having that color can provide a player with a distinct advantage in that he can make immediate headway on a preferred strategy. Endgame 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

In this one he’s shirtless and in white spandex pants with a red belt. Odd One Out 2018-08-09T00:00:00Z

More and more of the white sheets were covered with his large handwriting, scrawled impatiently over the paper. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

His scaly back is striped with white marks that read like a warning label. The Sky at Our Feet 2018-03-06T00:00:00Z

It was hazardous, but it was the only way to traverse an area both as Negro and white. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

It snowed all that week, ending a white November and beginning a whiter December. Lizzie Bright and the Buckminster Boy 2004-05-24T00:00:00Z

Its rows of windows are outlined in bright white trim. The Sea in Winter 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Corpses lie side by side, curtain brushing their heads, white cloths concealing their faces. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

It was the handsome male with the dense white beard. My Life with the Chimpanzees 1988-03-01T00:00:00Z

On any sunny day you would see sailboats gliding over the surface, leaving fine white lines behind them that were their wakes. Dragonwings 1975-01-01T00:00:00Z

This was a version of her mother that Ophie had seen only a few times, usually when white folks were around. Ophie's Ghosts 2021-05-18T00:00:00Z

It was important to get out of the neighborhood and into the white sector as quickly and inconspicuously as possible. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

The white world tore us limb from limb and came back to feast on the chitterlings. X: A Novel 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Because the white knight may have changed its mind.” The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

It is a large, white, carrot-shaped East Asian radish that is often made into kimchi, the spicy fermented condiment that is Korea’s most famous dish. Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West 2013-03-26T00:00:00Z

Poor whites from west Texas, her family was so badly off sometimes she’d come to school with no lunch and no money and we would split whatever I had brought along. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

The steak plates were piled high on the stove with their brown juice and their white grease sticking them together. Cannery Row 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

Here Captain Cook insisted on looking over the window display, which consisted of several open packages of shiny white boric crystals. Mr. Popper's Penguins 1938-09-01T00:00:00Z

Their backs were a rich ul­tramarine and their stomachs snow white, colours that vanished to grey or black when they were at any depth, but which close to the surface sparkled with surprising brilliance. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

Whites should prove their commitment to dismantling not only mass incarceration, but all of the structures of racial inequality that guarantee for whites the resilience of white privilege. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

The moon was always a brilliant white, and once in a while the night wind brought the hooting of owls and the rise and fall of voices from the refugee camp. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

“What would you do for a quarter?” the white man asked, still gazing off. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He wove among the chimneys, his feet slipping and sliding over snow, keeping in mind that white looming bulk which he had glimpsed ahead of him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

I meant to simply walk by again and I thought I had, except suddenly I was standing at the edge of the Taheris’ white tablecloth, staring at Soraya across curling irons and old neckties. The Kite Runner 2003-05-01T00:00:00Z

She grew up in town, in a yellow house with a white picket fence lined with purple irises. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

I even used the rest room, and the white ladies smiled and said hello. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

From here she had a view of the driveway and the lake across which lay a column of shimmering phosphorescence, white hot from the fierce late afternoon heat. Atonement 2001-09-20T00:00:00Z

As she headed for a swooping white stone staircase, she caught sight of two familiar figures in the shadows of a nearby alcove. Six of Crows 2015-09-29T00:00:00Z

In concert we wore white cotton blouses and dark skirts. Farewell to Manzanar 1973-01-01T00:00:00Z

One may object—possibly—that this puts the matter somewhat too simply, but the song is true, and it has been true for as long as white men have ruled the world. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Now, its white paint was peeling, its shutters were cracked, its windows were grimy with dust. A Tangle of Knots 2013-02-05T00:00:00Z

The area was originally intended for whites, and a real estate developer actually built a number of houses there for white buyers. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Everyone, white and black, lived in it and breathed it—all ages, all trades, all classes. Travels with Charley in Search of America 1962-01-01T00:00:00Z

His eyes rolled white and he panted foam over his chin. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Well yeah, if his essential agreements include dictating my life into being a copy of his. I don’t want to marry a Linda and live like a coconut. Brown on the outside, white inside.” Saints and Misfits 2017-06-13T00:00:00Z

Still, it seems obvious that mass incarceration directly harms far more whites than Jim Crow ever did. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Many of them live on mission stations or government reserves, or else work for whites as herdsmen on cattle stations. Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies 1997-03-01T00:00:00Z

The picture on it is of a fat white baby boy completely submerged in clear blue water. The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

Lelia removed the dozen or so shoeboxes of pictures from the top shelves and lined them up between us on the white shag carpet. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Two guys and a girl around our age, wearing white bandanas on their faces, help us into the back of the truck. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

But today, civil rights is a dominating issue in every state, crowding the pages of the press and the daily conversation of white Americans. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

Outside was the cookhouse, a little white frame cottage not far behind the main house. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

Babi came out of the bathroom, his hair—peppered white with flour when he’d come home—washed clean now and combed back. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

And with that she took out from the empty bag a starched white apron and tied it round her waist. Mary Poppins 1962-10-27T00:00:00Z

Here, in case you don’t know what it is yet, is the perennial example, as espoused by Harold Ross: “The flag is red, white, and blue.” Eats, Shoots & Leaves 2003-11-06T00:00:00Z

When the top was finished it looked like a bed of closely packed white carnations with a heart of red ones. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

She reaches me and we peer at each other’s faces, looking down the white tunnels of cloth that enclose us. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

She positioned what looked like a smallish white tub between the snake’s back teeth. Beauty Queens 2011-05-24T00:00:00Z

I should have stayed on the other beach, on the white shingle, and come home by the Happy Valley. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

A small, white hand reached out and flicked a bit of dust off the table. A Thousand Splendid Suns 2007-05-22T00:00:00Z

The aluminum hull was stud­ded with rivets and painted white. Life of Pi 2001-09-01T00:00:00Z

The words came quickly, and I still remember them: My snowman is white, my snowman is out of sight. Three Little Words: A Memoir 2007-12-27T00:00:00Z

We walked between rows of small houses behind green or white fences, some with their verandas hidden behind the tamarisks, others standing naked among the rocks. The Stranger 1989-03-13T00:00:00Z

Down the shoreline a fishing boat pulls up to the dock at the seafood restaurant, and a man in a long white apron rushes down the gangplank to meet the boat. Rules 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He waited a moment and then with lightness, paternal amusement, “She ever had it from a white man?” Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

In my job I had to wear white gloves. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

But he was smart and he knew enough not to even look at a white woman. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

Septa Moelle had stiff white hair and small mean eyes perpetually crinkled in suspicion, peering out of a wrinkled face as sharp as the blade of an axe. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Her classmates wrote with pencils, but there were no erasers—they used dried squid bone to white out their mistakes. A Place to Belong 2019-05-14T00:00:00Z

From one such island rose a weirwood gnarled and ancient, its bole and branches white as the surrounding snows. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

Ugwu did not pay close attention to who was there, though, because, as he stared at the shabby white altar cloth, he imagined that he was getting married. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The Milk Ghost drove his white truck from house to house every other day. The Woman Warrior 1976-01-01T00:00:00Z

They scrutinized the shade of one another’s skin and played the color game as ruthlessly in the end as the whites did. Outliers 2008-11-18T00:00:00Z

The work was tough, especially for black men, who got the jobs white men wouldn’t touch. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

Then the white man laughed and said we boys couldn’t take a joke, and opened the door.” I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

The snow moved in no given direction, but filled the world with a vast white storm of flying powder. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Not long after, a white doctor came into the room and sat down. Healer of the Water Monster 2021-05-11T00:00:00Z

A tall, dour white woman talked to me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

He was shot and killed by his white neighbor just as he stepped out of 8800. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

His skin was dark and wrinkled, his cropped hair nearly white. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

After he left, I sat at the old square oak table in one of the three unmatching chairs and examined his small kitchen, with its dark paneled walls, bright yellow cabinets, and white linoleum floor. Twilight 2005-10-05T00:00:00Z

Julius rolled over and over to get away from those teeth, leaving a trail of blood across the white marble. Tiger, Tiger 2004-10-04T00:00:00Z

He took off the soft black hat and held it in his hand and the gray hair glistened wetly, and the band of white skin at the forehead shone in the light. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

Their faces were plastered white with ash and smeared with blood. I Survived the Eruption of Mount St. Helens, 1980 2016-08-01T00:00:00Z

I don’t even think everyone in this class is supposed to be in here, because there’s a white boy in the corner looking down at his schedule, hoping that he’s in the wrong room. The Freedom Writers Diary 1999-10-12T00:00:00Z

Marcus stared at the floor, which I’d just noticed was tiled with tiny white hexagons like the ones in our bathroom at home. When You Reach Me 2009-07-14T00:00:00Z

It’s still warm, and I don’t want the curry splashing on my white T-shirt. A Place at the Table 2020-08-11T00:00:00Z

We thought we were imitating the reality of white people At sunset, I would leave for home. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

It rolls through putrid white smoke from a Kimberly-Clark factory that turns sugarcane pulp into Kleenex and toilet paper. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

There were white rugs and white leather seats. The House on Mango Street 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

"That's true, sir. And the white family that owned the land when it was a big plantation still lives in town." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

He sat astride a white, studying the footsteps down on the floor of the ravine. The Princess Bride 1973-11-01T00:00:00Z

The receptionist was not innocent and neither was I. The whole charade we had played out in that crummy waiting room had directly to do with me, Black, and her, white. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

“August told me about you being here and helping us out, but she didn’t say anything about you being ... white.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

She was quiet, and she kept running her bottom lip through her teeth, making it go white, so that you could see that her lips had freckles, too. Eleanor & Park 2013-02-26T00:00:00Z

A woman in black pants and a loose-fitting white shirt answers the door and then calls for her husband. Love, Hate & Other Filters 2018-01-16T00:00:00Z

Her skin was white as mare’s milk, her hair so thin that he could see the scalp beneath. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

As a school, most whites never had much use for Ector once it had become pegged as the minority school. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Say the following to nearly anyone and watch the reaction: “We really need to do something about the problem of white crime.” The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

When the door opened, it was not the woman in white but another one wearing red, her hair cut so short it resembled a little gray, curlicue swim cap pulled tight over her scalp. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father walks into the room, wearing his white lab coat. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

I twirled around, and the full skirt of my pink and white dress floated around me. The Red Umbrella 2010-04-25T00:00:00Z

What did the whites think of her whiteness? Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

The head was very dark brown—almost black—in such sharp contrast to the white neck that the bird looked as though it were wearing a kind of hood. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

He laid out the terrible injustice of black and white men fighting “in brutal solidarity,” only to come home to a country where they could rarely live on the same block. Boots on the Ground: America's War in Vietnam 2018-04-10T00:00:00Z

The Asian and Hispanic kids rarely complain about what we give them; the black kids and white kids often do, they act entitled, though in different ways. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not only kids, but grownups, too, black and white, because Cobble’s Corner was on Hector, and word was racing through the neighborhoods on both the east and west sides of the street. Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

When he thought Ged was coming close enough to touch him, he would hobble away, peering back with a scowl around his bush of dirty white hair. A Wizard of Earthsea 1968-11-01T00:00:00Z

We in this colony took as our own the most dramatic, and the most obvious, of our white masters’ characteristics, which were, of course, their worst. The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

A magnificent spray of white carnations, red roses, lavender, and baby’s breath blanketed the length of Great-great-aunt Florentine’s closed casket. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

A few spots of blood clung to the collar of his white dress shirt. Shelter (Book One): A Mickey Bolitar Novel 2011-09-15T00:00:00Z

Then I wouldn’t waste any time to start opening their eyes about the devil white man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

And on that day, Second Wife’s hair began to turn white. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Yeah, but this isn’t the colored car, it’s a white car.” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

In Saint Louis, we didn't feel the white people were smothering us, circling all around, telling us what to do. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

He was an unusual looking white man, his face young, almost unlined, but his hair completely gray and his eyes so pale as to be almost colorless. Kindred 1979-06-01T00:00:00Z

The police were also trying to discourage white civilians from coming uptown, but those who wanted to still did. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

I stare through the windshield at the white lines glowing in the headlights. Thirteen Reasons Why 2007-10-18T00:00:00Z

That was the worst thing anyone could think of—that or the white blindness. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Same as every morning, I folded over my three slices of white bread to fit in my hand. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

The whites of her eyes were bloodshot, which is what happens when you have been crying or staring too hard for too long at something. The London Eye Mystery 2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

He laughed, then pointed to a white speck across the lake and said, “See that?” Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

The tide was halfway in, or halfway out, and a row of pedal boats was drawn up on the soft white sand above the high-water line. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

How Minos, King of Crete, failed to sacrifice a white bull to Poseidon. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

She brings over a pot of white rice with vegetable bits sprinkled over it and a plate of chicken patties. It’s Kind of a Funny Story 2006-04-02T00:00:00Z

Headlights caught the glimmer of her white gown as he twirled her in easy circles. A Long Way from Chicago 1998-09-01T00:00:00Z

The one with a white windowless van rolling slowly past the park. Dry 2018-10-02T00:00:00Z

When I wake up, I barely get to the toilet before the white liquor makes its reappearance. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Albert says that the problem is that white people don’t have enough melanin. He says that’s the thing that makes human skin darker.” Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

Perhaps it was because the people who thought they were white told her she was smart and followed this up by telling her she was not really black, meaning it as a compliment. Between the World and Me 2015-07-14T00:00:00Z

The good guys always ride a white horse, and the bad guy is always a black-hearted villain. Tears of a Tiger 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Blacks would continue being suspicious of the motives of whites; and whites would continue being suspicious of the motives of blacks; blacks would continue hating whites; and whites would continue fearing blacks. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Naima peeked at him from behind the curtain, fiddling with the white ribbon she kept hidden on her wrist under the long sleeve of her salwar kameez. Rickshaw Girl 2007-02-01T00:00:00Z

Fearing that my family might think I was finicky, I lied to them, telling them that the white woman had already hired a boy. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

"AHA!" the drunken master shouts, pointing a long finger, white and bony and red at the tip, at Jacob. The Inquisitor's Tale 2016-09-27T00:00:00Z

Pap said, “I’m thinking it’s that black one with the white spot on her tail. We’ll see how good my eye is.” The Journey of Little Charlie 2018-01-30T00:00:00Z

It turned a dark beige with swirls of white throughout, and the scent wafted up to Anya. Anya and the Nightingale 2020-11-10T00:00:00Z

Sometimes strangers came to the meetings—white infiltrators who wanted to know what we were planning. While the World Watched: A Birmingham Bombing Survivor Comes of Age during the Civil Rights Movement 2011-02-01T00:00:00Z

He was a white boy with red hair who everybody was friends with mainly because people were scared that he was crazy and it's better to be on crazy's good side. Ghost 2016-08-30T00:00:00Z

Seemingly he watched the white horse, but really he watched the triangular steel point of the pic. The Sun Also Rises 1926-10-22T00:00:00Z

She white, she fat, she stupid, and she a ho. Girls Like Us 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

I was silenced by the sight of him propped by white hospital- looking pillows in a big armchair. A Separate Peace 1959-01-01T00:00:00Z

Back then, when I was growing from baby to little girl, I had two white dresses. Taste of Salt: A Story of Modern Haiti 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Faintly, she smiled; she showed her small, even, white teeth. Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? 1968-01-02T00:00:00Z

For months the small city of Selma, Alabama, had been the scene of mass meetings, protest marches, arrests, and violent confrontations between black voting rights demonstrators and white law enforcement officers. Because They Marched 2014-01-01T00:00:00Z

A white doctor came to the home-house with his derby and walking stick, wrote “stillborn” on Day’s birth certificate, then drove his horse-drawn buggy back to town, leaving a cloud of red dust behind. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

The nurse takes the silver tray of tools and pours alcohol into a white plastic bowl. First They Killed My Father: A Daughter of Cambodia Remembers 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

There were white people there, too, but not so close. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

Knowing that I couldn’t carry him and the ax and lantern, I stuck the ax deep in the side of a white oak tree. Where the Red Fern Grows 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

She took one look at the broken mirror, and at me, standing over the blind, white pieces, and hustled the young nurse out of the room. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

Under the bones lurked a ruined and wretched creature with cracked brown teeth and a yellow tinge to the whites of his eyes. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

And there below these giant white letters are column after column, line after line, that say Before I die I want to . All The Bright Places 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

She was holding a crisp-ironed white button-down church shirt and a comb. Please Ignore Vera Dietz 2012-10-12T00:00:00Z

The white man’s eyes were steadily upon him. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s the bright yellow one with the white impatiens under the porch.” Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Up until then I’d thought that white people and colored people getting along was the big aim, but after that I decided everybody being colorless together was a better plan. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bounding across the still water at the foot of the old white one, he caught the scent of a stranger, the man-smell well mixed with leather and earth and iron. A Clash of Kings 1998-11-16T00:00:00Z

To the left are the winter whites: wool coats, mink hats, wool sweaters. Like Vanessa 2018-03-13T00:00:00Z

“He had like the whitest freaking teeth I’ve ever seen. I bet he uses those things. The Crest things.” Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda 2015-03-25T00:00:00Z

The walls are covered in diagrams, white spots and lines on black paper, framed maps of constellations. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

Of course, I had no problem finding multiple minor-league white team lineups from the same years. Fast Pitch 2021-08-31T00:00:00Z

He was also given white sneakers, an orange cap, and a canteen made of heavy plastic, which unfortunately was empty. Holes 1998-08-20T00:00:00Z

I could not identify myself as white, or as any other race. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

Priority should have been given to figuring out some way for poor and working-class whites to feel as though they had a stake—some tangible interest—in the nascent integrated racial order. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

Now he saw the dark eyes glowing and the white teeth flash. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Very pleasant, thank you,” said Mum, as a tubby man with joke-shop sideburns trundled a large, white, lidded wheely bucket round from the front of the house. Black Swan Green 2006-04-10T00:00:00Z

There was no sign of Gurgi, but a white streak sped across the field. The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Her wrapper had come undone and her white underwear showed. Purple Hibiscus 2003-10-01T00:00:00Z

In the eeriest way possible, I suddenly had a glimpse of what white people must go through at a dinner table when they are trying to prove that Negroes are not subhuman. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

She didn’t seem frivolous, didn’t seem like the type who’d waste an entire day fretting over her white carpet. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“Of course we are all alike, we all have white oppression in common,” Miss Adebayo said dryly. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

She bites her lip for a second and looks thoughtful, and then she pulls off one of her white gloves and hands it to him through the bars. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A magnificent white bud just beginning to open. Mockingjay 2010-08-24T00:00:00Z

Astonishing numbers of white people called, and wrote, offering contributions, or asking could they join? The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was such a sad case of a brainwashed black Christian ready to do battle for the white man— who wants no part of him. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

But most American white people seem not to have it in them to make any serious atonement—to do justice to the black man. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The bus today is nothing but maids heading home in our white uniforms. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

It must have been five in the morning when, downtown, I woke up a white actor I knew who lived in die Howard Hotel on 45th Street, off Sixth Avenue. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

His views about the white man were devastating, but at no time did he transgress against my own personality and make me feel that I, as an individual, shared in the guilt. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

She did have the same features and coal-black skin, and she was the same height as Rhonda, but gone were the puffy white dress and long green hair. The Mysterious Benedict Society 2008-04-01T00:00:00Z

“You mean the white witch,” he said slowly. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

A very old man, bent but active, with white mustaches that bristled forward like those of a prawn, pushed open the swing door and went in. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

Soon, my mom’s brown and white checkered apron is in front of me. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

The bell over the door chimed and the woman—tall, casually dressed in a straight navy skirt and white blouse—pushed through it. It All Comes Down to This 2017-07-11T00:00:00Z

I always get headaches from looking at the brightness of dark letters on white pages for too long. Fish in a Tree 2015-02-05T00:00:00Z

It was a good dance and it entertained our white buddies. Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we near Rensselaerville, we sit down in the shade of a white ash and plan what to do next. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

By the turn of the century, white supremacy had been reestablished. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

So they all waved the white flag that day and let me grieve in peace. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

Then they released the bird and it swooped with a flurry of white wings, hovered over the edge of the boat, then sat on top of the shiny water. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

As I relaxed my hands and sighed, the white mist and the silence that was part of it was shattered suddenly, was rent in two by an explosion that shook the window where we stood. Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

When I turned, I found the five people smiling at us, their faces made long by high cheekbones and long, white teeth. One Crazy Summer 2010-01-01T00:00:00Z

He saw a Long Knife in a white hat standing alone. In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

I envisioned Merry curled up inside an empty open casket, lying on smooth white satin and clutching her blanket to herself, snoring her little-girl snores. Each Little Bird That Sings 2005-03-01T00:00:00Z

In the line of houses still painted company white, it stood out, a bright, brave statement that things weren’t the same anymore. October Sky 1999-04-01T00:00:00Z

This new white knight was not so tall nor comely as the old one, but he was bigger across the chest, burlier, his arms thick with muscle. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

“June—you wouldn’t catch her keeping house for white people. She went to work at a colored funeral home, dressing the bodies and doing their hair.” The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

Of course you couldn't speak that way in the South, the white folks wouldn't like it, and the Negroes would say that you were "putting on." Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

Grandmother Baxter was a quadroon or an octoroon, or in any case she was nearly white. I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings 1969-01-01T00:00:00Z

Light-blue cloth a shirt, perhaps jumbled up with something dirty white. The Girl on the Train 2015-01-01T00:00:00Z

“It’s honest-to-goodness cinder, you know? It’s so much better than running on our lumpy dirt road. On that white school track, I feel like an eagle or something.” Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

I did not intend to allow the white people of this country to tell me who I was, and limit me that way, and polish me off that way. The Fire Next Time 1963-01-21T00:00:00Z

Where trillium had spread its wide white petals, there were now long beads of berries, some red and some black. Miracles on Maple Hill 1956-08-01T00:00:00Z

The first thing he noticed was that the gull’s head was molting and turning white, though a dark brown patch remained behind each eye. Watership Down: A Novel 1972-01-01T00:00:00Z

Eight dogs, each with thick gray coats shading into white bellies and paws, had been led into the courtyard by a thin, spry Xi woman. Huntress 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

Not just a young man—a Candor, dressed in black and white from head to toe. Allegiant 2013-10-22T00:00:00Z

I noticed the necklace had left a white ring around his sunburned neck. Breaking Through 2001-08-27T00:00:00Z

Not one person’s bought a copy in the white bookstore. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

You probably think I’ve completely fallen in love with white people and that I don’t see anything good in Indians. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

A minute or so passed, and another, and then the white door opened just a crack. The Secret History 1992-10-16T00:00:00Z

“Your lovely dress, Madam,” she said, “your lovely white dress.” Rebecca 1938-08-01T00:00:00Z

The baby’s coffin lay on a table draped in white cloth. When I Was Puerto Rican 1993-09-20T00:00:00Z

Hallis Mollen went before them through the gate, carrying the rippling white banner of House Stark atop a high standard of grey ash. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

Rumors swirled about Union generals sending the colored units out to be massacred with inefficient gear and less pay than the white soldiers. Dactyl Hill Squad 2018-09-11T00:00:00Z

Fishermen sometimes shot duck loads at them, but for the most part the gulls were given free rein on the docks; their gray white droppings stained everything. Snow Falling on Cedars: A Novel 1994-09-12T00:00:00Z

As they rear and hiss and jump at each other you are distracted by the fact that they are both no longer stark white but a perfect ebony black. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

A tall white woman in her nightclothes leaned against the wainscoting in the kitchen. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

The Doctorita’s on TV, her teeth bleached white, a giant fake smile stuck to her face. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

At the end of his shift, the white driver went to the police station and turned himself in. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Every night now Guitar was seeing little scraps of Sunday dresses—white and purple, powder blue, pink and white, lace and voile, velvet and silk, cotton and satin, eyelet and grosgrain. Song of Solomon 1977-01-01T00:00:00Z

Five Arctic Cat quads were parked, lengthwise and haphazard, out front, and men, all wearing identical white parkas with round, red logos were scattering about the yard. The Marrow Thieves 2017-05-10T00:00:00Z

When she doesn’t hear back from him, she becomes certain, with the surety of the white light illuminating her brain, that El Li'der is to blame. Dreaming in Cuban 1992-01-01T00:00:00Z

Ridgeway rode with another man in addition to the boy, a tall white man with long brown hair and a necklace of human ears around his neck. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“If any of those Christian white traders behaved the way their Bible tells them to live, they would all go broke.” Code Talker: A Novel About the Navajo Marines of World War Two 2005-01-01T00:00:00Z

Tom rubbed his ears until he forced the blood out of them and for a moment they were white. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

They wore collared white shirts, too, the kind Grandma calls “blouses.” P.S. I Miss You 2017-09-26T00:00:00Z

Zeus took up the white fat and was angry when he saw the bones craftily tricked out. Mythology: Timeless Tales of Gods and Heroes 1942-01-01T00:00:00Z

Down the street we came, my white teacher and me, with all my friends looking at me and a few asking if it meant I was going to get a beating. Bad Boy 2001-05-08T00:00:00Z

It was white, out of respect for her father’s death, but unlike my white sari, Chandra’s was made of fine muslin. Homeless Bird 2000-03-01T00:00:00Z

The leaves are a bright early spring green, and sprinkled along the ground are tiny flowers of white, yellow, and violet. Blood on the River 2006-05-04T00:00:00Z

And throughout the night, white and black mobs invaded each other’s neighborhoods, attempting to burn the other out. 1919 The Year That Changed America 2019-01-08T00:00:00Z

Sam was a white man of twenty-five years and exhibited none of the eccentric mannerisms of his co-workers. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

And if somebody did come in the projects, I’m not racist or anything, but if he’s white I don’t got to touch you. Our America: Life and Death on the South Side of Chicago 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her bed is a high four-poster with white sheets and yellow quilt. Ninth Ward 2010-08-16T00:00:00Z

Sunlight poured through the three wide windows that faced the street and spread gold across the gray rug, the French-style sofa, chairs and end tables, the polished, glass-topped coffee table, and along the white walls. The Chosen 1967-04-28T00:00:00Z

The white coat followed my gaze to the cot. The Darkest Minds 2012-12-18T00:00:00Z

I catch a glimpse of the white casket at the front of the sanctuary, but I can’t make myself try to see more than that. The Hate U Give 2017-02-28T00:00:00Z

I had chosen traditional dress to emphasize the symbolism that I was a black African walking into a white man’s court. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My father presses his lips so hard together, they turn white. Al Capone Does My Shirts 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z

Her shiny brown hair is pulled back with a white ribbon. Orphan Train 2013-04-02T00:00:00Z

Meanwhile, without supervision, my little cousins had begun balancing on logs, patting mudcakes, enjoying the holiday of smearing their dresses and darkening their white socks. How the García Girls Lost Their Accents 1991-01-04T00:00:00Z

Located where the cold, clear Spokane River tumbled in a white froth over a series of low falls, the town was surrounded by ponderosa pine forest and open range country. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

Smoke was thick & black & gray & white against the Grasses. The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing, Traitor to the Nation, Volume I: The Pox Party 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

The boys wore white collared shirts and pants held up by suspenders. The Mark of Athena 2012-10-02T00:00:00Z

“Remember those white markers? They start right over there. Each one shows where a soldier was found, where he fell.” In the Footsteps of Crazy Horse 2015-11-10T00:00:00Z

“They must be! There’s the brown hen, the white—I’d know that comb anywhere.” The Book of Three 1964-03-12T00:00:00Z

Mr. Binks smiled wide, flashing the whitest teeth Genie had ever seen. As Brave As You 2016-05-03T00:00:00Z

A very white skeleton but wearing a lady’s flowered dress and red shoes. Dead End in Norvelt 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

I see its awning from a full block away—its white stone exterior gleams in the sun. What If It's Us 2018-10-09T00:00:00Z

Later, I met a white guy who seemed interested in me—until he said: “Sandra, you’re so pretty for a black girl.” How Dare the Sun Rise 2017-05-16T00:00:00Z

The shelves were stacked with slabs of white meat, cans of oil, and sacks of meal. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

“Oh, how the white man has succeeded in turning brother against brother.” Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

And what’s more, our white dentist believed that Indians only felt half as much pain as white people did, so he only gave us half the Novocain. The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian 2007-09-01T00:00:00Z

The Ice, as Estraven had said, tends to hold a high-pressure zone above its central area, where thousands of square miles of white reflect the sunlight. The Left Hand of Darkness 1969-03-01T00:00:00Z

I was led into a white classroom with thirty other students, who took their seats and placed their pencils on their desks. Educated 2018-02-20T00:00:00Z

“If I could have two,” she went on humbly, “only two small ones—two small white pearls even...” The Good Earth 1931-03-02T00:00:00Z

In his hands he carried on a large leaf as on a tray a small pile of white water-lilies. The Fellowship of the Ring 1954-07-29T00:00:00Z

He’d even painted the room, from its sky blue to a barren, optic white. Native Speaker 1995-01-01T00:00:00Z

And pretty soon everybody was saying it, including Hester and Lester; and, finally, in the kitchen one day, as he licked white icing from her thumb, Mrs. Beale said it: “You that Maniac?” Maniac Magee 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

Bright, white flames had erupted around Dumbledore’s body and the table upon which it lay: Higher and higher they rose, obscuring the body. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince 2005-07-16T00:00:00Z

They were her fancy ones, trimmed at the ankle with a specially prepared ruff of white rabbit fur. The Birchbark House 1999-07-21T00:00:00Z

“You can tell the temperature by looking at Margot and me, because we turn white when it’s cold and red when it’s hot,” I said. The Diary of a Young Girl 1997-02-03T00:00:00Z

In the mornings their dark bodies fill the crosstown buses, taking them away from Nicholtown to the other side of Greenville where the white people live. Brown Girl Dreaming 2014-08-28T00:00:00Z

The cool white marble of the mosque glows in the late-afternoon sunlight. Born Behind Bars 2021-09-07T00:00:00Z

If he were white, if he were like them, it would have been different. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Icy cold, filled with orange juice, a straw with a frilly white collar. The Hunger Games 2008-09-14T00:00:00Z

Her tunic was as plain as her blanket, and tufts of white hair peeked out from the edges of her cotton head wrap. Beasts of Prey 2021-09-28T00:00:00Z

Sir Charles and the other white man brung their heads together and started talking. Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Although Amari could not understand the language of the white men, she soon began to recognize words they repeated often, such as “slave” and “price.” Copper Sun 2006-01-01T00:00:00Z

He hunched down and tried to move toward the exit, but someone else stepped up, an older man with a crown of white hair. Anger Is a Gift 2018-05-22T00:00:00Z

Then he took out a large white handkerchief and wiped them carefully before he came back into the living room to sit down at the table. Jacob Have I Loved 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

Inside was a dress, red velveteen with white cotton lace around the neckline and on the edge of the short, puffed sleeves. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

And there was a choir of perfect boys in perfect white robes with perfect combed hair singing their perfect notes like everything was perfect. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

His jacket was Armani, and he wore a white shirt that was open at the neck and hanging out over his dark trousers. Confessions of a Murder Suspect 2012-09-24T00:00:00Z

Gloria’s grandchildren are racing around with fistfuls of white powder in their hands. Enrique's Journey 2006-02-21T00:00:00Z

The city fathers bragged about the way our people and white folks were working “side by side.” Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

After a moment the latch lifted, the white gate opened, and Abra emerged. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

“Don't think you can just fly off and never return,” said Thor, and he stroked his white beard meaningfully. Norse Mythology 2017-02-07T00:00:00Z

The only thing I recognize is the feet, decked in a familiar pair of white old-lady shoes. You Bring the Distant Near 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

They’re mostly white except for Esther Song, the only other Korean girl at our school, who never acknowledges my existence. Finding Junie Kim 2021-05-04T00:00:00Z

Her saddle and bridle were made of fine dark brown leather, and the saddle blanket was woven of gray and white wool that nearly matched the horse’s coat. Ash 2009-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sandwiched between the clothes is a silvery white cap like the kind swimmers wear. The Last Cuentista 2021-10-12T00:00:00Z

Black Consciousness was less a movement than a philosophy and grew out of the idea that blacks must first liberate themselves from the sense of psychological inferiority bred by three centuries of white rule. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

“I was, like, the prototypical white Hoosier kid,” he said. The Fault in Our Stars 2012-01-10T00:00:00Z

While cities in the East expanded through immigration and became more diverse, Los Angeles became more homogenous and white. Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal 2001-01-17T00:00:00Z

The newspaper people snapped their bright camera bulbs and took dozens of pictures of Jimmy Winkleman, a white boy, instead. Stella by Starlight 2015-01-06T00:00:00Z

Although the majority of illegal drug users and dealers nationwide are white, three-fourths of all people imprisoned for drug offenses have been black or Latino. The New Jim Crow 2010-01-05T00:00:00Z

I had never seen so many white people, all hurriedly dragging their bags and running in different directions. A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier 2007-02-13T00:00:00Z

Tall thing with skinny legs and a bright white halo shining behind its head. The Young Man and the Sea 2004-02-01T00:00:00Z

I knew that I could not take rides with strangers, and especially not with a white stranger in a big flatbed truck with fencing around the back of it. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

“Please don’t tell nobody that,” she says, softer now, “him wanting to write about his white boss.” The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

I seed them talking to them white women: 'How you feel? The Bluest Eye 1970-01-01T00:00:00Z

To Lupita’s surprise, it was not black at all, but dusty white. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

We were standing outside the post office when the local magistrate, a white man in his sixties, approached Paul and asked him to go inside to buy him some postage stamps. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Above his unadorned white shirt was a fine cobalt-blue jerkin trimmed with gold. Throne of Glass 2012-08-07T00:00:00Z

His grin flashed white in his swarthy face. Carry On, Mr. Bowditch 1955-01-01T00:00:00Z

In fact, housing was a fundamental and perennial concern, dating back to slavery days, a festering sore which was often decried by community leaders, white and black, but which never seemed to heal. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

The white Communist, who had been scouting for a room in which I could sleep, ran up to me. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

‘Good evening, Mr. Revere.’The man smiled with a quick flash of white teeth. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Not one of those white adults attempted to rescue Elizabeth. Warriors Don't Cry: A Searing Memoir of the Battle to Integrate Little Rock's Central High 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

Spurge shied away from Werfel’s rage, but Werfel seized his shoulder and pulled the white fur hood down further so it covered the elf’s face. The Assassination of Brangwain Spurge 2018-09-25T00:00:00Z

Beyond the houses stood a white church in the middle of the forest. The Hot Zone 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

My sister’s boyfriend showed up in his Buick, and he was wearing a white “tails” coat over a black suit, which looked wrong for some reason. The Perks of Being a Wallflower 1999-02-01T00:00:00Z

The whole story plays out in my mind—she will be on the news every day because she is a white girl and white girls who go missing always make the news. Piecing Me Together 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

In 1983, as a result of desegregation the proportion of white students at Permian was 76 percent and that of Hispanics 14 percent. Friday Night Lights: A Town, A Team, And A Dream 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I told him, “Sounds like what white folks would do then!” Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

He closed his eyes and he could see fields of snow, miles and miles of Wyoming snow, and white mountains in the distance, all clean and incredibly still, and no man anywhere and no motion. The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War 1974-01-01T00:00:00Z

She wore a simple white dress and a hard expression, her face strikingly pretty even though she appeared to be giving serious thought to gouging out my windpipe. Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children 2011-06-07T00:00:00Z

The white glop on the floor had dried to powder. Wringer 1997-08-16T00:00:00Z

Once again drawing from the pool of most common names among white children, here are the top picks of highly educated parents versus those with the least education. Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

And then He will place His holy hand upon our heads and straightway us will be white as cotton. The Heart is a Lonely Hunter 1940-07-29T00:00:00Z

She was dressed severely in a dark dress with long sleeves, and the only contrast was billowing white lace at her wrists and throat. East of Eden 1952-09-01T00:00:00Z

And he looked at the white man’s bloody shirt and thought, he told Elizabeth, at the bottom of his heart: “I wish to God they’d killed you.” Go Tell It on the Mountain 1953-05-18T00:00:00Z

When the sheriff didn’t reply, she said, “Oh, I see. He’s only a danger to us, not to white folk.” Root Magic 2021-01-05T00:00:00Z

Seven towers, Ned had told her, like white daggers thrust into the belly of the sky, so high you can stand on the parapets and look down on the clouds. A Game of Thrones 1997-08-04T00:00:00Z

He carried the beautiful white shell beads on the end of a stick because he suspected where they came from; he left them hanging in the branches of a piiion tree. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

“You look white, the way Tom and Eb did once when they tried it.” Across Five Aprils 1964-01-01T00:00:00Z

As we carried him toward the Golden Day one of the men stopped suddenly and Mr. Norton's head hung down, his white hair dragging in the dust. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

The boy in yellow tights with white feathers on the butt and a blue floral cape. The Wednesday Wars 2007-05-21T00:00:00Z

An obnoxious group of well-manicured people—a white girl and boy, and an Indian boy—were already trying to take pictures of one another. When Dimple Met Rishi 2017-05-30T00:00:00Z

Hearing the screams of so many little white babies was new. The Underground Railroad: A Novel 2016-08-02T00:00:00Z

“It is long and white,” he explains, “cross-hatched where long ago stitches stabbed in. Like railroad tracks.” Beast Rider 2019-03-01T00:00:00Z

It’s white and ridged on one side, shiny and pearly pink on the other. I Can Make This Promise 2019-10-01T00:00:00Z

The bureaucrats assured them that Bacon Street was just one of three such projects planned for their city—the other two of which would be built in predominantly white neighborhoods. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

It’s quite the predicament: wanting to touch and hug and kiss a white girl after a white man shot him and killed his best friend? Dear Martin 2017-10-17T00:00:00Z

The crowd, however, was craning at the white mound, which was wheezing loudly, and declined the invitation to elegance. A Confederacy of Dunces 1980-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Mama is really somebody,” thought Francie as she held her marshmallow down with her spoon and watched the melting white sworls vein the dark chocolate. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

The sky was clear, the sails shone white against it. Homecoming 1981-01-01T00:00:00Z

In his stained white smock, he was half rebellious and wholly uncertain. I, Robot 1950-12-02T00:00:00Z

The white spots scattered over its brown back mimicked the dappled light so that one second a fawn lay there, and the next second there was nothing but undergrowth. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

It occupied the top floor of a white town house and had windows that looked out onto trees. Genuine Fraud 2017-09-05T00:00:00Z

Without makeup, without jewelry, clothed only in a white hospital gown, she looked older, softer. The Westing Game 1979-01-01T00:00:00Z

But the SS-HJ refused to drape their vehicles in white flags. Hitler Youth: Growing Up in Hitler's Shadow 2005-04-01T00:00:00Z

I would explain to Makgatho in the simplest terms how the black man was persecuted by the white man. Long Walk to Freedom 1994-01-01T00:00:00Z

There was another time, years ago, back in Yana Urku, when I felt the thrill of turning white. The Queen of Water 1996-01-01T00:00:00Z

In the brilliant glare of the moon the only colors were stark black and dead white, and every edge was jagged and every surface bare. The Subtle Knife 1997-01-01T00:00:00Z

Sometimes we were compelled to drive through white neighborhoods where we didn’t belong. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Marilyn came in today, armed with her usual stack of papers and folders, like a hurricane of white and yellow. We'll Fly Away 2018-05-08T00:00:00Z

She worked on Space Mountain, proudly wearing the uniform, a red, white, and turquoise polyester jumpsuit. A Deadly Wandering: A Mystery, a Landmark Investigation, and the Astonishing Science of Attention in the Digital Age 2014-09-23T00:00:00Z

About halfway between the floor and the ceiling, musicians float on what look like fluffy white clouds, but I can’t see what holds them aloft. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

Her long, white hair was matted and had a sickly yellowish tint. Fablehaven 2006-07-30T00:00:00Z

It doesn’t work, because players learn to tune out white noise. Looking for Alaska 2005-03-03T00:00:00Z

Somehow even me being white and imposing on their hospitality didn’t seem enough reason. The Secret Life of Bees 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

“Did your parents care that he was white?” The Sun Is Also a Star 2016-11-01T00:00:00Z

What he saw made him suck his breath in; Mrs. Dalton in flowing white clothes was standing stone-still in the middle of the kitchen floor. Native Son 1940-03-01T00:00:00Z

Brightly colored couches—all red, gold, and white—and thick white rugs dot the living room space. Warcross 2017-09-12T00:00:00Z

At home, I opened the white shark anatomy book on the kitchen table. The Line Tender 2019-04-16T00:00:00Z

In front of the tiny hut, a bent and white- haired old woman was working near a lush flower garden. Gathering Blue 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

She would be so impressed to see him arrive in a white man’s car that she would believe anything he said. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

Boys appeared wearing sports shirts and white shoes for the first time since the previous summer. The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics 2014-05-27T00:00:00Z

After revealing the many death threats, he explained that as the leader of the Klan he had for years tried to help white parents and students with school-related problems. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

But first they were unmade, their edges fading like the evanescent white bird, Wraith, as it phased through the skin of the sky. Strange the Dreamer 2017-03-28T00:00:00Z

He jumps onto the couch, which is covered with a white sheet, like he’s a prince and that is his throne. King and the Dragonflies 2020-02-04T00:00:00Z

They would know the three leaders because each of them would wear a white handkerchief about the neck and a red string about the right wrist. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

Still it was nothing new, white folks seemed always to expect you to know those things which they'd done everything they could think of to prevent you from knowing. Invisible Man 1952-01-01T00:00:00Z

I ain’t got the intention of letting no man, not even no white man, pull me off from what I got to do, and I need you to help.” Elijah of Buxton 2007-08-06T00:00:00Z

Spray flew, the white men shouted at each other. Island of the Blue Dolphins 1960-01-01T00:00:00Z

It was a triangle of white slipped into a fold in the canopy above the four-poster bed. Stormbreaker 2000-09-04T00:00:00Z

The white raven took to the air, its pale wings slapping him about the head. A Dance with Dragons 2011-07-12T00:00:00Z

If Gordon told everything those white girls told him, he would give England a new scandal. The Autobiography of Malcolm X 1965-01-01T00:00:00Z

The fairy with the butterfly wings and milky white face had flown after him. Inkheart 2003-09-23T00:00:00Z

I still have Willem's handkerchief tied around it, and drops of red have seeped through the white cotton. Girl in the Blue Coat 2016-04-05T00:00:00Z

He wanted to kick the soft white bodies into the Atlantic Ocean; he wanted to scream to all of them that they were trespassers and thieves. Ceremony: 1977-03-01T00:00:00Z

Mrs. Wheeler went inside, and came back with a picture of two white cats. Doing Time Online 2002-01-01T00:00:00Z

The subtlety of it escaped the whites on the bus, but it in no way escaped the driver or the Negroes at the back. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

But under all our talk floated a latent sense of violence; the whites had drawn a line over which we dared not step and we accepted that line because our bread was at stake. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

And everything, save for occasional lengths of white silk ribbon strung like garlands, is made of ice. The Night Circus 2011-09-13T00:00:00Z

“Gosh, look how white they are,” said Pink, poking one with a corn cob. Cold Sassy Tree 1984-11-02T00:00:00Z

The outer ring of candles was complete, twelve white columns burning exactly as they had when Will was last in the hall. The Dark is Rising 1984-01-01T00:00:00Z

It didn’t take long for the word to spread around the courtroom, and pretty soon white people were turning around in their seats staring at her, mean, hateful stares. Mississippi Trial, 1955 2002-05-27T00:00:00Z

Why did they have to behave like children when white people were around? March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

Processed food like white bread was called “plastic food.” The Omnivore's Dilemma 2006-04-11T00:00:00Z

That white man stole that black woman’s cells! The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z

I had figured out that if the white people were so unwilling to share all the things like the buses, they certainly weren't going to share their bomb shelters with us. March Forward, Girl 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

There was a white linen cloth laid on the grass, with bowls piled high with food—she could see salads and sandwiches, nuts and fruit, jugs of lemonade and water and thick chocolate milk. Coraline 2002-02-24T00:00:00Z

He returned in a few moments with a big heavy white woman. Black Boy 1945-01-01T00:00:00Z

But this takes a lot longer than I would like: we are a far cry from picket fences and white curtains, here in our lagoon of postwar mud. Cat's Eye 1988-09-01T00:00:00Z

Yawar led a llama, pure white and unblemished, to the front of the people. The Ugly One 2013-06-11T00:00:00Z

Slim Earl Percy on a white horse, escorted by a group of officers, was cantering slowly across the Common. Johnny Tremain 1943-01-01T00:00:00Z

All the houses here were huge and immaculate and eggshell white, but it didn’t take long to figure out which one was Celia’s. Made You Up 2015-05-19T00:00:00Z

The irises in Alice’s eyes look as if they are made of little pieces of blue and white crystal. On the Far Side of the Mountain 1990-01-01T00:00:00Z

I cover my mouth with my glove to disperse the white of my breath in the icy air. Catching Fire 2009-09-01T00:00:00Z

The furniture was oak, steel and white leather - impersonal and masculine. Blood of Olympus 2014-10-07T00:00:00Z

In the center of the valley, nestled by the lake, was a small city of white marble buildings with red-tiled roofs. The Son of Neptune 2011-10-04T00:00:00Z

They joined two others standing alongside a white man by the entrance gate to one of the yards. Kaffir Boy: An Autobiography 1986-01-01T00:00:00Z

Imagine a white guy in America, just dark enough to pass for Latino, walking around jail doing bad Mexican-gangster dialogue from the movies. Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood 2016-11-15T00:00:00Z

His matching white beard is thick and long, which also makes me think of Santa again. Amina's Voice 2017-03-14T00:00:00Z

A white man robs a convenience store and do we hear he’s of Scottish descent? Zeitoun 2009-07-15T00:00:00Z

Then all the mothers cleared the tables and swept off the long white tablecloths and, all laughing, folded them together and boxed up the extra food, and there was a lot. Okay for Now 2011-04-05T00:00:00Z

We walk, sedately- The sun is out, in the sky there are white fluffy clouds, the kind that look like headless sheep. The Handmaid's Tale 1985-01-01T00:00:00Z

A white patent leather purse hangs on a long strap from my shoulder. Middlesex: A Novel 2002-06-05T00:00:00Z

In some cases, blacks have forged alliances with whites and Latinos to elect black mayors, senators, and congressmen. A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919 2018-01-02T00:00:00Z

The big huge house right there was the hospital and they had a lot of white people inside, and some other ones in white dresses.There were so many white people I forgot to count. The Poisonwood Bible 1998-01-01T00:00:00Z

And more fire trucks, all speeding toward the bridge in a blur of red and white, a deafening, endless ribbon. Nine, Ten: A September 11 Story 2016-06-28T00:00:00Z

Or is the interview a painful and discouraging waste of time for the black applicant—that is, an economic penalty for having a white- sounding name? Freakonomics: A Rogue Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything 2005-04-12T00:00:00Z

The man was a white blur, singing in a cracked, shaky tenor. The Sound and the Fury 1929-01-01T00:00:00Z

He chose the flavors: wild cherry for the black pawn and peppermint for the white knight. The Joy Luck Club 1989-01-01T00:00:00Z

The streams of white and red dots, headlights and taillights, astounded her. Lupita Mañana 1981-03-21T00:00:00Z

And he moved his next white piece to the adjoining square on the edge of the board. American Gods 2011-06-21T00:00:00Z

Overtures by anyone friendly to these groups—or, God forbid, members of one of them—received short shrift in the poor white sections of Durham. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

But it was only the majors and some of the white semipro leagues that paid anything decent. Life Is So Good 2000-01-01T00:00:00Z

They were both dressed in their good dark clothes and wearing spotless starched white aprons, ruffles standing out at their shoulders like wings. The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate 2009-05-12T00:00:00Z

Then, curious to see how they would fare with the whites, I walked along with them. Black Like Me 1961-01-01T00:00:00Z

I lay on my bed under the thick white blanket, and they entered my room, one by one, and introduced themselves. The Bell Jar 1963-01-14T00:00:00Z

His hand showed white as he held it up, palm outward, in token of peace; but the king’s men gripped their weapons. The Return of the King 1955-10-20T00:00:00Z

I turn to see my altar—the statue of the Virgin Mary, the tea candle, the bottle of Florida water, the beaded gourd, tin cup, and white fabric. American Street 2017-02-14T00:00:00Z

With the British gone, there would be good things for everyone: "white" salaries long denied Nigerians, promotions, top jobs. Half of a Yellow Sun 2006-09-12T00:00:00Z

A priest I once heard in a white middle-class parish defended the reformed liturgy by saying that it had become necessary to ‘de-Europeanize’ the Roman Catholic Church. Hunger of Memory 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

I spend all day long tending to white peoples. The Help 2009-02-10T00:00:00Z

Come in, say Jack A skinny little white woman stick most of herself through the door. The Color Purple 1982-01-01T00:00:00Z

Some of the white youths went further, filling cored apples with broken glass and hurling the fruit at blacks. The Best of Enemies 1996-04-01T00:00:00Z

Fiery red, against fair white skin, like Mom. Sir Fig Newton and the Science of Persistence 2022-03-22T00:00:00Z

Glenn Allen and his brothers were one of the reasons Ellie didn’t trust any white people in Lambert. The Parker Inheritance 2018-03-27T00:00:00Z

He drank another mouthful of gin, picked up the white knight, and made a tentative move. 1984 1949-06-08T00:00:00Z

It looked like a garment at first, a cast-off cloak made of small white feathers. Breadcrumbs 2011-09-27T00:00:00Z

Most of the black Lackses I talked to over the years referred to Benjamin Lacks as “old white granddaddy,” though some still called him “Massuh Ben,” as their parents had. The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks 2010-02-02T00:00:00Z