Description
Product ID: | 9781439919958 |
Product Form: | Paperback / softback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Title: | Do Right by Me |
Subtitle: | Learning to Raise Black Children in White Spaces |
Authors: | Author: Kathryn Peach D'Angelo, Valerie I. Harrison |
Page Count: | 194 |
Subjects: | Social and cultural history, Social & cultural history, Ethnic studies, Adoption and fostering, Popular medicine and health, Relationships and families: advice and issues, Adoption and fostering: advice and issues, Child care and upbringing: advice for parents, Ethnic studies, Adoption & fostering, Popular medicine & health, Family & relationships, Adoption, Child care & upbringing |
Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
Imprint Name: | Temple University Press,U.S. |
Publisher Name: | Temple University Press,U.S. |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2020-11-27 |