num_pages: 256
description: Am I black or white or am I American? Why don't my eyes look like yours? Why do people always call attention to my 'different' hair? Helping a child understand his mixed racial background can be daunting especially when whether out of honest appreciation or mean-spiritedness peers and strangers alike perceive his features to be other.Drawing on psychological research and input from more than fifty multiracial families Does Anybody Else Look Like Me? addresses the special questions and concerns facing such families explaining how they can best prepare their multiracial children to make their way confidently in our color-conscious world. From the books and toys to use in play with young children to simple scripts to help them gracefully react to insensitive comments at school to advice on guiding older children toward an unflappable sense of self Does Anybody Else Look Like Me? is the first book to outline for parents how exactly to deflect the objectifying and discomforting attention multiracial children are likely to receive. Full of powerful stories and expert counsel it is sure to become the book that both adoptive and birth parents of different races will look to for understanding as they strive to raise their children in a changing world.
language: English
title: Does Anybody Else Look Like Me? A Parent's Guide to Raising Multiracial Children
publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books