The Sisters Are Alright by Tamara Winfrey Harris

Author:Tamara Winfrey Harris
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers, Inc.
Published: 2015-04-04T04:00:00+00:00

Moments in Alright

“My daughter sometimes slept under my desk when I worked nights,” says DeShong Perry-Smitherman, who became a mother at sixteen. DeShong went on to become an Emmy Award–winning news producer. And with her business partner, Ericka Gibson, she cofounded A Girl’s Gift, Inc., a program designed to teach girls leadership and entrepreneurial skills.20

Brandi says she has a lot of fears about “raising a black girl in this world. My race still becomes very, very clear even in the fact that I’m a mom. I stopped noticing when I’m alone, like it’s just me in a room full of white people, but if I’m with my daughter and we’re in a room full of white people and white kids, I just notice it right away. I want her to be with some kids of color or I’m wondering what these parents are teaching their children about black kids. I’m paranoid about all that. How is she going to see the world?”

But black mothers find little support in addressing problems of race or the routine challenges (and joys) of parenting because the way people think about black parenting is so limited.

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