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My Brown Baby : on the joys and challenges of raising African American children / Denene Millner.
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Booklist Reviews 2017 February #1
Journalist Millner created the popular and critically acclaimed website MyBrownBaby.com in 2008, and this volume collects essays from the site on a variety of parenting topics, all aimed at parents of color or parents raising children of color. The brief essays are grouped into sections such as "They'll Wear the Armor: Black Children and Racism"; "New Motherhood"; "Hair Stories: The Joys, Pains, and Politics of Black Children's Kinky Curls"; and "Mother Love." Many of them are humorous, some are profound, and more than a few are thought-provokingly political. In the essay "Birthing While Black," Millner describes the not-so-subtle ways she was treated differently in her "posh" Manhattan hospital; in "Black Boy Swagger, Black Mom Fear," she discusses the worries that come every time her teenage son leaves the house. Millner is a natural, conversational writer, and these bite-size essays deserve a wide readership. Copyright 2017 Booklist Reviews.
LJ Reviews 2017 March #2
Best-selling author Millner (Dream Girls) here delivers the finest selections from her award-winning blog MyBrownBaby.com, which soulfully and hilariously depicts the delights and sorrows of child rearing from a black perspective. While few blogs on this topic make it to publication, Millner's deserves every prize earned. Her writing is acutely on target. Holding nothing back, and speaking through raw truth, she gives a keen yet grounded take on parenting from the black viewpoint, both educating and validating readers along the way ("Unless you're parenting a little black girl, you have absolutely no earthly idea how exhausting it is to be media whipped for not being a white girl").
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