It Will Never Happen to Me: Growing Up With Addiction As Youngsters, Adolescents, Adults

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Here is Claudia Black's best-selling classic on the experience and legacy of being raised in an addictive household. In an all too familiar scenario, played out in millions of homes everyday, children who grow up in addictive families abide by certain rules: don't talk, don't trust, don't feel. And they take on rigid survival roles--the responsible child, the adjuster, the placater, the acting-out child--that are youthful coping behaviours which can eventually contribute to problems of depression, loneliness and addiction in adulthood. Using poignant personal stories, revealing explanations, and helpful exercises, Black helps readers gain personal insights and develop new skills that lead to a healthier, happier, more fulfilling life. While continuing to recognize alcohol as the primary addiction within families, this newly revised edition of "It Will Never Happen to Me" broadens concepts to include addictive disorders involving other drugs, money, food, sex and work.

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Really good.......2007-05-15

This is a great read for anyone who has grown up or is growing up in an alcoholic family. It helps the reader in very simple ways to understand the dynamics of alcoholic families and offers concrete ways of dealing with issues and problems. I recommend it to anyone currently dealing with alcoholism or dealing with the aftermath of an alcoholic upbringing, or even for someone just curious about the effects of alcoholism on families.

awakening.......2006-01-18

This book was recommended by my therapist and after reading it I gave it to a friend who is also an adult child of an alcoholic. I haven't got the book back so I'm buying another copy for myself. I NEED to read it again and again. It opened my eyes and put a lot of the pieces of the puzzle together for me. Although it's hard to face some of the realities this book points out, I believe it to be one of the vital steps I am taking in trying to change my life for the better. It's never too late.

accurate and helpful.......2005-10-29

claudia black is a respected author in the field of addictions. she writes for adults and children for both alcoholics and their families. i have read many books in this area and she is one of my favorite authors. the book is short, accutate,compassionately written, and forever timely. worth reading!

Excellent Insight into Who I am and Why.......2005-08-07

I read this book AFTER reading ADULT CHILDREN OF ALCOHOLICS by Janet Woititz. Both provided me with insight into a problem I only recently realized I have. However, Black's book is both easier to read and has more detailed analysis. She divides ACoAs into four categories: The Responsible One, The Adjuster, The Placater, and "Acting Out". I fit the profile of Responsible in every way. I now understand myself better, and am beginning therapy for the first time in my life at the age of 55. Thank you, Dr. Black, for opening my eyes!

Great book.......2005-01-28

This book is a must-read for everyone who grew up in an alcoholic family.

The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African American Culture

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Everything you need to know about US
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The Hip Hop Generation: Young Blacks and the Crisis in African American Culture
Bakari Kitwana
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ASIN: 0465029795
Release Date: 2003-04-29

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Bakari Kitwana, a former editor at The Source, identifies blacks born between 1965 and 1984 as belonging to the "hip-hop generation" a term he uses interchangeably with black youth culture ("Generation X" applies mainly to whites, he says). He calls hip-hop "arguably the single most significant achievement of our generation," yet blames it for causing much damage to black youth by perpetuating negative stereotypes and providing poor role models. But this book is about much more than just rap music; it takes a broad look at the state of post-civil-rights black America and the crises that have come about in the past three decades, including high rates of homicide, suicide, and imprisonment and a rise in single-parent homes, police brutality, unemployment, and blacks' use of popular culture (through pop music and movies) to celebrate "anti-intellectualism, ignorance, irresponsible parenthood, and criminal lifestyles." Serious problems indeed, but Kitwana acknowledges that members of this generation have more opportunities than their parents had, and he believes there is still time to make positive and lasting changes.

He looks closely at this generation's worldview, politics, activism, and its high profile in the entertainment world, which has made it "central in American culture, transcending geographic, social, and economic boundaries." Emphasizing that "rap music's ability to influence social change should not be taken lightly," he calls for a more responsible and constructive use of this unprecedented power. Kitwana is concerned about the legacy of his generation, and he wants his book to "jump-start the dialogue necessary to change our current course." The Hip Hop Generation deserves to be read both for its aim and its execution. --Shawn Carkonen

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The Hip Hop Generation is an eloquent testament for black youth culture at the turn of the century. The only in-depth study of the first generation to grow up in post-segregation America, it combines culture and politics into a pivotal work in American studies. Bakari Kitwana, one of black America's sharpest young critics, offers a sobering look at this generation's disproportionate social and political troubles, and celebrates the activism and politics that may herald the beginning of a new phase of African-American empowerment.

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I highly recommend this book.......2007-02-24

I highly recommend this book in order to understand the post civil-rights black african american situation. Because of the interesting topic and writing style this book was a pretty quick read. Kitwana clarified so many issues: the unemployment crisis, the prison industry, mandatory minimum jail sentences, the drug war as a means to target black men, the gender war between black men and black women, making hip hop into a political agenda, the power of rap music, etc. It is a MUST READ for those who were born into this generation (born between 1965 and 1984) or who do not understand what is going on right now especially in regards to black men (it's written from a black male perspective).

I believe that society is in an awkward transitioning phase between the old pre-civil rights U.S.A. and the new post-civil rights U.S.A. I think once the baby boomers have passed away things will catch up. The hip hop generation (the black counterpart to the mainstream's Generation X) will eventually lead the black community so that issues relevant to the younger generation will finally be addressed... But will it be too little, too late?

The existing one that implements his opinion.......2006-02-21

I like the crisis in african american culture and the hip hop generation because it allows me to know what is going on in the world. Reading that book taught me how to give back to my community if I ever had fortune and fame. It talks about how people should stick together like flies to feces rather than be against each other. It talks about how the military should give money to the community rather than spend money to send people to Iraq and have their lives taken. It talks about how the military should fight for democracy. Those are some of the things that I've benefited from the book. I think the book is interesting. I would recommend the book to anyone who is into stuff like the crisis that african american have.

Add to "What You Should Read" List.......2005-09-28

This is one of the best books for the Hip Hop generation out in circulation. His nononsense views are understandable and shed light on many current issues in society. I think everyone, parent, teacher, community leader, and political assosciate should read this book.

Everything you need to know about US.......2005-08-23

This one is good for the parents of teens and especially for the white parents to know whats up with there children and why they want to be like us. This is the only hip hop book you will ever need. This book was on hit!

A strong foundation for continued change.......2005-02-06

I appreciated Kitwana's presentation of the current issues facing today's hip hop generation. Interesting and insightfuul was the comparisions of the generation and that of the Civil Rights/Black Power generation. This book stands strong is providing a foundation on which to further examine these issues and to use the strong influential power within this generation to finally begin to resolve them.

Teaching Reading to Black Adolescent Males: Closing the Achievement Gap

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Teaching Reading to Black Adolescent Males: Closing the Achievement Gap
Alfred W. Tatum
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ASIN: 1571103937

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Visionary ideas but a mediocre read.......2007-01-15

Teaching in high-poverty inner city schools is no easy task. In the classroom, one often tries to fight students' incredibly low achievement with solid remediation. However, it becomes painfully clear that school lacks relevance to students, who are faced at a tender age with poverty in their families and violence in their communities. One may wonder how to teach students the academic skills they need and invest them in schoolwork at the same time. Alfred Tatum, in this text, shows us that these two challenges can actually be tackled in one stroke.

Tatum's central idea is that a careful choice of texts in the literacy classroom can make this possible. For his black male students, texts that address "turmoil" - the word Tatum uses for violence, poverty, and a sense of powerlessness and invisibility in poor black communities - achieve this end. Tatum makes a convincing case for this by giving personal examples of how such empowering texts of the black male experience can change the lives of young black men. He recalls transformative experiences in reading from his own childhood and from his work with others that convincingly illustrate how certain texts can turn reading into a reflection on masculinity, coming of age, and being poor and black in a racist America. This gives reading a sense of relevance and authenticity impossible with most traditional texts in American classrooms. Tatum combines this with copious reading lists (though I wish he would have compiled them into one long list for easy reference) that provide ample fodder for an English teacher planning a curriculum.

The greatest strength of this book is that it lets the reader peer into Tatum's own eighth grade English classroom, where he does the work of "closing the achievement gap" for his black male students. The seventh chapter brims with Tatum's own instructional methodology. His concrete methods for literacy skill development, infused oh-so-subtly with culturally sensitive cues that elevate them above mere decontextualized drill, were amazing. To me, this chapter felt like sitting down with a cup of coffee and talking shop with a first-rate teacher. As a high school math teacher, I became envious of the English teacher's situation, where skill remediation can be integrated so seamlessly with topics relevant to students' lives.

Unfortunately, for the strength of its ideas, Tatum's text has many of the typical flaws of a text in academic education (or, more broadly, a text in the social sciences). It is cluttered with jargon, stilted classifications of simple ideas, and vacuous figures and diagrams. What takes Tatum pages to say would take only a few sentences in the hands of a better writer. Entire chapters seem to address esoteric theoretical aspects that never seem to get through to the reader. Tatum, the English teacher, is meticulous with his proofreading and grammar. Try to find a typo, dangling participle, or example of faulty parallelism: I have yet to find one. But his prose is surprisingly wooden, often tiring the reader with its deadpan repetitiveness. In a more egregious example, Tatum repeats an unepigrammatic sentence four times, interspersed with vague references to government research:

"Achievement gap data indicate that a large percentage of black males are failing to meet NAEP criteria for reading at the proficient and advanced levels. This is why I believe we need to strengthen text discussions with our black adolescent male students. Statistics from the U.S. Department of Justice tell us that a high percentage of black males are arrested or incarcerated. This is why I believe we need to strengthen text discussions with our black adolescent male students. Data from the U.S. Department of Labor indicate a high percentage of black males are unemployed. This is why I believe we need to strengthen text discussions with our black adolescent male students. Data from the U.S. Department of Education indicate that college enrollment is declining for black males. This is why I believe we need to strengthen text discussions with our black adolescent male students." (112)

It is too bad that Tatum lacks the skill as a writer to give his message a persuasive punch. Tatum's strategy to build literacy, self-awareness, and academic motivation through empowering texts is remarkable for its sensibility and promise. It deserves a wide audience and enthusiastic application in American inner-city classrooms.

Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race

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Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria? And Other Conversations About Race
Beverly Daniel Tatum
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ASIN: 0465091296

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Anyone who's been to a high school or college has noted how students of the same race seem to stick together. Beverly Daniel Tatum has noticed it too, and she doesn't think it's so bad. As she explains in this provocative, though not-altogether-convincing book, these students are in the process of establishing and affirming their racial identity. As Tatum sees it, blacks must secure a racial identity free of negative stereotypes. The challenge to whites, on which she expounds, is to give up the privilege that their skin color affords and to work actively to combat injustice in society.

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Read it now. If you've read it, read it again........2007-10-02

I swear, this woman must have visited my High School cafeteria, because everything she writes hits home. I haven't read this in a few years, but it still rings home to me. Whenever I see it, I give the same reaction that I would get when other people who read it saw me with the book- "Oh, you're reading that!" It's not just about the black kids sitting into the cafeteria, it goes well beyond that. The stories shared are excellent. I recommend this book to everyone and anyone.

Good insights, but a little histrionic.......2007-09-06

I am really glad I read this book, because it gave me a different perspective on some things. However, I think she was very biased: she never really considered any alternate viewpoints besides her own, and never gave a White viewpoint on racism any credit whatsoever (the most she did was agree that here is a problem). Some of the racist remarks she quoted I thought had more to do with cultural differences than racism, but I know that those assumptions are still annoying as I am part of a group that has a subculture and dislike it when people assume that I am part of that subculture as well. Some of those remarks, though, were just completely ridiculous as she went so far to complain about being washed "whiter than snow" in church. She completely and totally missed the point of that phrase which comes from the verse "Though your sins are like scarlet, they shall be washed whiter than snow." NOTHING to do with race whatsoever. It is a METAPHOR. Examples such as these are why I put "histrionic" in my title.

There are also other issues I wish she would have addressed/covered more thoroughly (ie, over-education about prejudice, reverse prejudice, perceived prejudice, etc). I felt like she was saying "WE are always right. White people are always wrong." And yes, I will agree that we are mostly in the wrong, but any psychologist worth anything knows it takes more than 1 to maintain a system. ie, Who are those actors in the media perpetuating those stereotypes? Not White people in makeup! So MAYBE it's not JUST evil White people forcing these stereotypes on everyone. I just wish she would have been a little more BALANCED.

Most of the studies she quoted were at least 10 years old. I checked one that I thought was very interesting, only to discover it was 25 years old. In the topic of racism, you have to stay up to date as things change so rapidly, hence the three stars. At times, I wanted to quit as it was occasionally tedious, querelous, and inconsequential. As I said, though, I am glad I read it as I did gain new insight. I REALLY liked how she handled the topic of racism with her kids, and I would like to do the same. She made some EXCELLENT points and had some good ideas. It is very thought provoking, even if you ultimately wind up not agreeing with her 100%. Surely, though, there must be a better book out there on racism. If not, someone should write one as this book is terrible for educating Whites on the problems of being Black (or another race). Of course, I am sure I will now be labeled as a "racist" for not agreeing with a PC book. Oh, wait, I am White, therefore, I am ALREADY a racist. Why bother trying? If you are White, according to Tatum, you can never win no matter what you do or how hard you try to stop the cycle.

Tatem's thought provoking book is a must read!!.......2007-08-24

I was required to read this book before entering my freshman year of college. At first, I felt overwhelmed by the importance of every word written,feeling as if I would never finish the two hundred and twenty pages required. However, as I began to understand more of Tatem's philosophies, the book gradually became easier to get through. This is definitely not a quick, light read. Tatem's topics spark ideas which you immediately want to discuss with someone, obviously causing each chapter to take more time to read. I thoroughly enjoyed the book though. Being brought up relatively race conscious I was surprised at how much I really didn't know. I definitely recommend this book to anyone who is ready to further his/her racial awareness.

Very Good.......2007-07-25

This book arrived in time for school and I was very pleased with its condition.

Provocative perspective.......2007-06-27

I found really good thinking in this book that helped me rethink my own position on race issues. the impact was, for me, breakthrough in some respects. The book is well worth the effort for anyone who seeks to be truly thoughtful about issues of race and diversity.

Composition in Black and White: The Life of Philippa Schuyler

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Composition in Black and White: The Life of Philippa Schuyler
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George Schuyler, a renowned and controversial black journalist of the Harlem Renaissance, and Josephine Cogdell, a blond, blue-eyed Texas heiress and granddaughter of slave owners, believed that intermarriage would "invigorate" the races, thereby producing extraordinary offspring. Their daughter, Philippa Duke Schuyler, became the embodiment of this theory, and they hoped she would prove that interracial children represented the final solution to America's race problems. Able to read and write at the age of two and a half, a pianist at four, and a composer by five, Philippa was often compared to Mozart. During the 1930s and 40s she graced the pages of Time and Look magazines, the New York Herald Tribune, and The New Yorker. Philippa grew up under the adoring and inquisitive eyes of an entire nation and soon became the role model and inspiration for a generation of African-American children. But as an adult she mysteriously dropped out of sight, leaving America to wonder what had happened to the "little Harlem genius." Suffering the double sting of racism and gender bias, Philippa had been rejected by the elite classical music milieu in the United States and forced to find an audience abroad, where she flourished as a world-class performer and composer. She traveled throughout South America, Europe, Africa, and Asia performing for kings, queens, and presidents. By then Philippa had added a second career as an author and foreign correspondent reporting on events around the globe--from Albert Schweitzer's leper colony in Lamberene to the turbulent Asian theater of the 1960s. She would give a command performance for Queen Elisabeth of Belgium one day, and hide from the Viet Cong among the ancient graves of the Annam kings another. But behind the scrim of adventure, glamour, and intrigue was an American outcast, a woman constantly searching for home and self. "I am a beauty--but I'm half colored...so I'm always destined to be an outsider," she wrote in her diary. Philippa tried to define herself through love affairs, but found only disappointment and scandal. In a last attempt to reclaim an identity, she began to "pass" as Caucasian. Adopting an Iberian-American heritage, she reinvented herself as Felipa Monterro, an ultra-right conservative who wrote and lectured for the John Birch Society. Her experiment failed, as had her parents' dream of smashing America's racial barriers. But at the age of thirty five, Philippa finally began to embark on a racial catharsis: She was just beginning to find herself when on May 9, 1967, while on an unauthorized mission of mercy, her life was cut short in a helicopter crash over the waters of war-torn Vietnam. The first authorized biography of Philippa Schuyler, Composition in Black and White draws on previously unpublished letters and diaries to reveal an extraordinary and complex personality. Extensive research and personal interviews from around the world make this book not only the definitive chronicle of Schuyler's restless and haunting life, but also a vivid history of the tumultuous times she lived through, from the Great Depression, through the Civil Rights movement, to the Vietnam war. Talalay has created a highly perceptive and provocative portrait of a fascinating woman.

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Machiavellian Sexual Predator?.......2007-09-02

I had a newspaper cut out of the picture that is on the cover of this book for years. It is faded and delicate but I never rid myself of it because I found the beautiful face that was on it so enchanting. All I knew was that this girl was called Philippa. I thought she was Indian or an old Bollywood star. Then I saw the photo again but on the cover of a biography in a bookshop called Foyles in London.

Composition in Black and White: Life of Philippa Schuyler by Kathryn M. Talalay is a very well written and comprehensively researched biography about a child prodigy. The opening chapters are compelling and written with such confidence that it suggests that this biography is going to be a classic. Unfortunatly the subject matter lets Talalay down as the middle section of the book demonstrates because it is simply an extended list of her engagements and travels. That said the book sparks back into to life in the later chapters as the mature Philippa is explored. I would like to have known when she had her first real sexual encounter, as this would have put the later exploration into her sex life into context.

There are some questions that are left unresolved which I supposed adds too the mystery of this difficult character. Also as Philippa grows she becomes more selfish and self-centred. Less sympathetic. Her world really does revolve around her and only her even if she is in a war-zone. My personal view is that in latter life she became something of a Machiavellian sexual predator. I can't see how she can be labelled a humanitarian. Her main concerns were solely for herself. She had an abortion simply because the baby came from a Blackman. Yes she was brave, talented and beautiful yet she was also cruel, stupid and brutal. Someone who had too much emotion baggage to be around for long.

Where is Philippa's music now? Was it really any good? Are there any recordings of it?

I can find none available. Maybe that speaks for itself.

two too short lives ..........2005-12-22

Richard Powers puts Philippa Schuyler (1931-1967) to the centre of his novel "The time of our singing". Halle Berry (this time as a producer instead of as an actress) wants to film her life ["Composition in Black and White"] and has found Alicia Keys as a principal actor -- also a coloured pianist and an admirer of Philippa Schuyler by whom Alicia feels deeply inspired. These two current marginal notes should already unlock us to read this book written by Kathryn Talalay about Philippa Schuyler. If one has started to explore the facts of this extraordinary biography, then one quite surely will be tied up of what this exemplarily strong woman experienced: At the beginning of her life she was, aged 11, on tour as a "child prodigy" celebrated on concert stages in about 80 countries -- also America needs his Mozarts (at first the present U.S. Foreign Secretary Condoleezza Rice was on this track, too, before she still discovered more essential). Philippa Schuyler (got adult) changed her name because of the racialist injustices , which made the USA particularly to the axis of the bad in the Mccarthy era -- for children from mixing marriages absolutely also. Philippa Schuyler tried to award a South American Spanish touch to herself with the pseudonym Felipa Monterro. (Jennifer Lopez today is an example, too, that this sort of identity absolutely gets more acceptance than a clear origin from a black American ghetto. ) Philippa Schuyler started with a second life as a (very successful) journalist, getting more awake for political discussions. She, an "American Sheroe" -- she died at the age of 35 years... at a report refund over Vietnam during a helicopter crash in 1967.

All you need to know about Phillipa's life........2005-08-12

This book is PACKED with details. The author really did her homework on this book. The author takes you on a journey beginning with the lives of her parents, Phillipa crossing the world on adventures and finally ending in pure tragedy. Phillipa was a very gifted child pianist. She grew up in New York as a multi-racial child. Her mother was a white southern heiress, her father was a talented black journalist. The two fell in love in a time where inter-racial couples were worse than taboo.

Phillipa traveled the world performing for royalty. Sometimes at dilapidated venues in fourth world counties. Although some times were rough for Phillipa (when she was older) she continued touring to get away from her demanding mother.

The book is packed with dates, locations, pictures and names. You can tell that the author, Kathryn Talalay, put a lot of effort into this book to give you the full picture of this girl's life. This is the reason why I gave it 3 stars and not 4 or 5. From reading so much info the book kind of lost its momentum.

NOTE: Be on the look out for the motion picture of "Composition in Black and White" staring Alicia Keys as Phillipa.

Excellent!!!.......2004-06-21

I loved this book and couldn't put it down. Very well written and researched. Philippa Schulyer was a fascinating woman! I highly recommend this book.

Partly dark but riveting story of a mulatoo virtuoso.......1999-09-02

As a social historian and african-american writer I enthralled when I read the NY Times Book Review of Kathryn Talalay's bio of phillippa Schuyler. Schuyler made her mark as a musical child prodigy and later, as an adult, a celebrated composer-pianist. Schuyler's life as an international performer in one sense mirrors that of another but more recognized "tragic mulatoo", Dorthy Dandridge. And her last career as a grounbreaking war correspondent in South Vietnam is particularly entriguing. Overall, Talalay's book is marvelous but the high brow and sordid realities of Schuyler's life are especially deserving of a major made-for-cable TV treatment. Similiarly to what recently afforded Dandridge. That way Talalay's thought provoking examination of Schuyler's achievements could be made accessible to a greater number of african-americans and others alike.

Narrowing the Achievement Gap: Strategies for Educating Latino, Black, and Asian Students (ISSUES IN CHILDREN'S AND FAMILIES' LIVES)

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Narrowing the Achievement Gap: Strategies for Educating Latino, Black, and Asian Students (ISSUES IN CHILDREN'S AND FAMILIES' LIVES)
Susan J., Ed. Paik
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The fastest growing populations in U.S. schools are minority children and youth from Latino, Black, and Asian-American communities. Multiple economic, family, and social risk factors pose challenges to these students. Not surprisingly, evidence continues to show that these children face an ever-widening achievement gap throughout their school years.

Consequently, school psychologists, educators, and other allied professionals must become better informed to improve the academic and life prospects of these children. To help these children succeed in school, Narrowing the Achievement Gap: Strategies for Educating Latino, Black, and Asian Students will serve as a valuable professional tool by:

Providing effective strategies from experienced scholars and professionals that can be used to improve academic achievement and well-being of minority students.

Examining, collectively, three cultural groups in one concise, yet comprehensive book on themes related to diverse families, immigration issues, and teaching and learning.

Conceptualizing opportunities and challenges in working with minority children in the context of the federal No Child Left Behind act, related state and local educational policies, and current social trends.

Tailoring the message of voluminous research to the practical needs of professionals working with minority children in accessible terms.

This volume is a must-have reference for educators, psychologists, researchers, policymakers â€“ and for anyone who works with children.

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"This volume is an important and impressive collection of scholarship that addresses one of the more intractable education problems of our times--ensuring that ALL children receive a quality education."

-- Gloria Ladson-Billings, Kellner Family Professor in Urban Education

University of Wisconsin at Madison, and 2005-2006 President of AERA

"A major contribution to the field, the in-depth analyses provided by the chapter authors should be of substantial appeal to a wide audience because of its interdisciplinary approach and orientation to theory, research, and practice."

-- Stanley Sue, Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Asian American Studies

University of California at Davis

"In considering the broad problems and in recommending solutions, the book provides breadth, concision, and unique organization."

-- Edmund W. Gordon, John M. Musser Professor of Psychology at Yale University Richard March Hoe Professor of Education and Psychology at Teachers College, Columbia University

"This volume addresses the most important issue in contemporary education: understanding diversity while making it a pedagogical asset."

-- Luis C. Moll, Professor & Associate Dean, College of Education, University of Arizona

I'm Chocolate, You're Vanilla: Raising Healthy Black and Biracial Children in a Race-Conscious World: A Guide for Parents and Teachers

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I'm Chocolate, You're Vanilla: Raising Healthy Black and Biracial Children in a Race-Conscious World: A Guide for Parents and Teachers
Marguerite A. Wright
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ASIN: 0787941964

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This superb, rational, and highly readable volume answers a deeply felt need. Parents and educators alike have long struggled to understand what meanings race might have for the very young, and for ways to insure that every child grows up with a healthy sense of self. Marguerite Wright handles sensitive issues with consummate clarity, practicality, and hope. Here we have an indispensable guide that will doubtless prove a classic.
--Edward Zigler, sterling professor of psychology and director, Yale Bush Center in Child Development and Social Policy

A child's concept of race is quite different from that of an adult. Young children perceive skin color as magical--even changeable--and unlike adults, are incapable of understanding adult predjudices surrounding race and racism. Just as children learn to walk and talk, they likewise come to understand race in a series of predictable stages.

Based on Marguerite A. Wright's research and clinical experience, I'm Chocolate, You're Vanilla teaches us that the color-blindness of early childhood can, and must, be taken advantage of in order to guide the positive development of a child's self-esteem.

Wright answers some fundamental questions about children and race including:

What do children know and understand about the color of their skin?
When do children understand the concept of race?
Are there warning signs that a child is being adversely affected by racial prejudice?
How can adults avoid instilling in children their own negative perceptions and prejudices?
What can parents do to prepare their children to overcome the racism they are likely to encounter?
How can schools lessen the impact of racism?

With wisdom and compassion, I'm Chocolate, You're Vanilla spells out how to educate black and biracial children about race, while preserving their innate resilience and optimism--the birthright of all children.

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Wife loved this book.......2007-09-06

We are adopting kids from Ethiopia, so I got this for my wife to read. She absolutely loved it. Not sure if it was due to our situation or if she would have loved it anyway. Brings up interesting points about inter-racial adoptions. She is recommending it to our friends and family as an good read.

What is Marguerite's race?.......2007-05-21

This book was one of the worst I have read. As a transracially adopted person, a parent with a white partner and multi-racial kids, a teacher, and a diversity director, this book is misleading. It gives teachers of young children an excuse to not talk about race. This attitude silences children. It also gives them a message that there is something wrong with race. Do we not talk about gender at an early age, hair color, eyes. Let's get all these "researchers" to live, be in and run a classroom over time. There is where your research is. White parents, don't be fooled by this book. She is making money off of your need for eduacation.

Wonderful.......2007-02-17

I have read a lot of these types of books since we are white and my son is African American. Great book for people preparing to adopt transracially. Gives you a lot to think about and prepare for. I think it's the best of these books.

I have also read the very popular "Inside Transracial Adoption" and this book takes a much more positive spin. I found the other one to be somewhat depressing. This book is much more hopeful and helpful. I consider it a must read if you are considering adopting a child of a race different than your own.

Not very good.......2007-01-08

I thought the author spent a lot of time dancing around serious issues and making everything seem lovely and dandy. She seemed afraid to go deeper into truly revolutionary parenting of black and mixed part black kids. I didn't finish the book for this reason.

More for educators, not parents........2007-01-05

This book had some good information in it, but seemed to be geared toward teachers and administrators of schools in inner-city areas where black children, presumably, are not as exposed to other races. The title was misleading to me as the book did not focus on topics, tips, or ideas for parents trying to raise a biracial child. If the title is what caught your attention, try "Does Anybody Else Look Like Me", that book is specifically for parents of biracial children and gives age-appropriate discussion topics as your child grows.

Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic

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It's A Dirty Shame to Condemn Them.

Soul Babies: Black Popular Culture and the Post-Soul Aesthetic
Mark Antho Neal
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In Soul Babies, Mark Anthony Neal explains the complexities and contradictions of black life and culture after the end of the Civil Rights era. He traces the emergence of what he calls a "post-soul aesthetic," a transformation of values that marked a profound change in African American thought and experience.
During the 1960s, the media offered symbolic attempts to satisfy demands for racial equality. Television shows like Julia and I Spy brought black characters into living rooms but failed to do justice to the figures they invented. (Neither black lead had a romantic relationship, for example.) In response, a new generation began to view the sixties and its accomplishments with a surprising irreverence.
Mark Anthony Neal draws upon his encyclopedic knowledge of black popular culture to examine the tension between a legacy of political activism and a more complex, ironic view of race and culture.
The Cosby Show, the Boondocks comic strip, an R. Kelly ballad, Eddie Murphy's comedy, and blaxploitation films are all part of his vivid synthesis of new cultural forms and energies.
Lively and provocative, Soul Babies offers a valuable new way of thinking about black popular culture and the legacy of the sixties.

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It's A Dirty Shame to Condemn Them........2006-10-31

These interracial children will never be accepted by the whites or the blacks as belonging to their race; they will always be misfits as kids and as adults. It wasn't meant to be in God's plan for this world. Who Takes The Blame? August 13, 2006

In February, 1969, a study titled "Black-White Contact in Schools: Its Social and Academic Effects" was published by Purdue University sociologist Martin Patchen. In it, he concludes "Available evidence indicates that interracial contact in schools does not have consistent positive effects on students' racial attitudes and behavior or on the academic prformance of minority students." In March, it was declared that the AIDS virus started in Africa and on the Caribbean island, Haita and spread to the United States via tourists. Get this! Susan Sontag decided in 1988 that "the virus was sent to Africa from the U.S. as an act of bacteriological warfare" as a conspiracy.

July, 1985, a survey conducted in New York City using the HIV antibody test finds that of frequent drug users, 87 percent carried the infection. The majority of the addicts were black and Hispanic. In August 1988, on Zachary's birthday, Jean-Michael Basquiat died in New York village of a heroin overdose at the age of 27 (Zach was 26 then). He was a graffiti artist whose pieces sold for $50,000 at the time of his death. There was a lot of debate about his artistic worth.

This book traverses the years 1979 to 1989 in America and is mostly about the singers and groups in the entertainment area but also writers which proliferated during that time. It is the time of affirmative action and Clarence Thomas who was married to a Causcasian woman but courted the office girls and almost lost his nomination. I watched it all on t.v. The girl took all the blame, and she was honest and above-board, blameless. The results of overcompensation has caused much turmoil for us all in America and some are deceitful by trying to pull the wool ober the eyes of political figures to the detriment of everybody.

Understanding Black Adolescent Male Violence: Its Remediation and Prevention (Awis Lecture Series)

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Understanding Black Adolescent Male Violence: Its Remediation and Prevention (Awis Lecture Series)
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Black-On-Black Cont'd..........2006-01-16

Dr. Wilson continues to expound upon the observations and conclusions reached in his seminal work, Black-On-Black Violence. While the latter work describes at length the causative factors which foster such debilitating violence, Understanding Black Adolescent Male Violence provides the reader with strategies to help combat the problem.

To Be Popular or Smart: The Black Peer Group

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To Be Popular or Smart: The Black Peer Group
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