Colin Seymour: 2 books

By the end of 2012, Bay Area boxers Andre Ward, Nonito Donaire and Robert “The Ghost” Guerrero all were rated among the top 10 fighters in the world, pound for pound, mentioned in the same breath as Manny Pacquiao and Floyd Mayweather Jr.Not since Northern Californians James J. Corbett and Jim...

Nearly 50 years after “Black Like Me,’’ few if any white authors have generated similar impact writing about American racial relations. But “Stereo Types,” the story of two preschool white boys who lived in a lower-class Negro household for three years in the 1950s, is that kind of book.This...