Syndetics cover image
Image from Syndetics

Do right by me : learning to raise Black children in White spaces / Valerie I. Harrison and Kathryn Peach D'Angelo.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Philadelphia : Temple University Press, 2021Copyright date: ©2021Description: xix, 167 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781439919958
  • 143991995X
Subject(s):
Contents:
Prologue -- Introduction: The gift -- Knowing what you don't know -- Trapped in history -- Too great for hope -- In living color -- Black out -- Not without education -- The talk -- Alchemy of intention.
Summary: "This book orients parents and communities of black children, including white adoptive parents, to the particular challenges and inequalities race brings to childhood. The authors present research, insight, and their own experience to guide parents to challenges related to education, health, safety, self-esteem, and community building"-- Provided by publisher.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Materials specified Status Date due Barcode Item holds
Children's Book Children's Book Main Library Parent/Teacher Resource Collection-Children's 649.145 H322 Available 33111010490569
Total holds: 0

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

For decades, Katie D'Angelo and Valerie Harrison engaged in conversations about race and racism. However, when Katie and her husband, who are white, adopted Gabriel, a biracial child, Katie's conversations with Val, who is black, were no longer theoretical and academic. The stakes grew from the two friends trying to understand each other's perspectives to a mother navigating, with input from her friend, how to equip a child with the tools that will best serve him as he grows up in a white family.

Through lively and intimate back-and-forth exchanges, the authors share information, research, and resources that orient parents and other community members to the ways race and racism will affect a black child's life--and despite that, how to raise and nurture healthy and happy children. These friendly dialogues about guarding a child's confidence and nurturing positive racial identity form the basis for Do Right by Me . Harrison and D'Angelo share information on transracial adoption, understanding racism, developing a child's positive racial identity, racial disparities in healthcare and education, and the violence of racism.

Do Right by Me also is a story about friendship and kindness, and how both can be effective in the fight for a more just and equitable society.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Prologue -- Introduction: The gift -- Knowing what you don't know -- Trapped in history -- Too great for hope -- In living color -- Black out -- Not without education -- The talk -- Alchemy of intention.

"This book orients parents and communities of black children, including white adoptive parents, to the particular challenges and inequalities race brings to childhood. The authors present research, insight, and their own experience to guide parents to challenges related to education, health, safety, self-esteem, and community building"-- Provided by publisher.

Powered by Koha