num_pages: 194
description: For decades Katie DAngelo and Valerie Harrison engaged in conversations about race and racism. However when Katie and her husband who are white adopted Gabriel a biracial child Katies conversations with Val who is black were no longer theoretical and academic. The stakes grew from the two friends trying to understand each others 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 childs lifeand despite that how to raise and nurture healthy and happy children. These friendly dialogues about guarding a childs confidence and nurturing positive racial identity form the basis for Do Right by Me . Harrison and DAngelo share information on transracial adoption understanding racism developing a childs 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.
language: English
title: Do Right by Me: Learning to Raise Black Children in White Spaces
publisher: Temple University Press