The skin we're in
Subtitle: teaching our children to be emotionally strong, socially smart, spiritually connected
By: Janie Victoria Ward
Publisher: Free Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 284
Subjects: Child rearing -- United States; African American parents; African American children
Description: Represents the collective wisdom of parents raised during the civil rights era, nurtured by parents who'd lived through Jim Crow, and raising children in an era when the appeal of "coloblindness" denies the continued practice of discrimination. Parents and teens recount racial injustices, recollections of abrasive teens sent North during the Jim Crow era to current racial profiling and negative images of black youth. Focuses on how parents can help adolescents deal with anger and frustration borne of racism and grow to be healthy adults, secure in their racial identities.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index