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Kilson and Florence Ladd</font></blockquote>
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BIRACIAL</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Helvetica">"Is that your
child?" is a question that countless mothers of biracial children in
the United States encounter, whether they are African Americans or
European Americans, rearing children today or a generation ago, living
in the city or in the suburbs, are upper-middle-class or middle-class.
In this book we probe mothers' responses to this query as well as
their accounts of other challenges and rewards of parenting biracial
children.</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Helvetica">The authors began
their conversations about parenting biracial children by recounting
their own experiences. Anthropologist Marion Kilson, a European
American, and psychologist Florence Ladd, an African American, became
parents of biracial children in the 1960s and 1970s,
respectively.</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Helvetica">Curious about the
commonalities and differences between their experiences and those of
other black and white women with biracial children, they interviewed
black mothers whose children's fathers were white men and white
mothers whose children's fathers were black men. Some of these women
were members of their generation; others were younger. Some women's
child rearing days were well behind them; others were rearing young
children or adolescents when interviewed. They talked to women whom
they already knew and to others whom they first met during our
interviews. All are middle-class or upper-middle-class in
socioeconomic status, living today in the Greater Boston area. All
were generously candid with their revelations and
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Helvetica">They found that
there were parenting issues that transcended generations and some that
were characteristic of only one generation. They discovered that
mothers differed in their levels of race awareness as parents as well
as in the importance that they gave to racial considerations in
parenting their children.</font></blockquote>
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<blockquote type="cite" cite><font face="Helvetica">IS THAT YOUR
CHILD? MOTHERS TALK ABOUT REARING BIRACIAL CHILDREN serves as a
general guide for understanding the situation of parents with biracial
children and that of the children themselves. It addresses situations
that confront parents, teachers, social workers, health professionals,
and the clergy. This book also fills an enormous gap in social science
literature and will provide an excellent text for classes on race
relations, parenting, and child rearing.</font></blockquote>
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Debra L. Martin, Programs Manager<br>
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