Black and white children not growing up game11/18/2023 Luckily I have a 20-year-long friendship with Val. And unlike parents, and I would say white people in general, who may subscribe to a color blind or post-racial ideology, Mike and I were very clear that we needed to confront head on the reality that we would need to equip our son for an experience that was far more complex than anything he or I had experienced in our lifetime. But we have real questions and concerns about racism, culture and identity. As white parents of a Black child, we want so badly to be good parents. My husband Mike and I are both white and we adopted our beautiful biracial son from birth. Kathryn Peach D’Angelo: My son Gabriel, who is now 9 years old. Temple Now: What inspired you to write Do Right by Me? We spoke with them about the book and the importance of nurturing a child’s positive racial identity. Together they’ve written Do Right by Me: Learning to Raise Black Children in White Spaces, a book (published by Temple University Press) that explores transracial adoption, the challenges Black children face growing up and the impact of racism on everything from education to healthcare. They met at Temple-where Harrison is the president’s senior advisor for equity, diversity and inclusion and D’Angelo is assistant vice president for administration and planning-and quickly became close friends, learning from and about each other.īut when D’Angelo and her husband Mike adopted their son Gabriel, her conversations with Harrison took on a new significance: now D’Angelo was learning, with help from her friend, the best way to bring up a Black child in a white family. Valerie Harrison and Kathryn Peach D’Angelo have been having meaningful conversations about race, culture and identity for more than 20 years.
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