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| Pt. I | That Magical Place: Race Awareness in the Preschool Years | |
| Ch. 1 | Chocolate and Vanilla: How Preschoolers See Color and Race | |
| Ch. 2 | How Preschoolers Begin to Learn Racial Attitudes | |
| Ch. 3 | When to Be Concerned That Race Is a Problem for Preschoolers | |
| Ch. 4 | Raising the Racially Healthy Preschooler | |
| Pt. II | The Waning of Racial Innocence: The Early School Years | |
| Ch. 5 | Shades of Brown and Black: How Early Grade-Schoolers See Color and Race | |
| Ch. 6 | Black Children's Self-Esteem: The Real Deal | |
| Ch. 7 | How School Influences Children's Awareness of Color and Race | |
| Pt. III | Reality Bites: Race Awareness in Middle Childhood and Adolescence | |
| Ch. 8 | Fading to Black and White: How Children in the Middle Years See Race | |
| Ch. 9 | How School Influences Older Children's Ideas About Race | |
| Ch. 10 | Preparing for Adolescence: The Lines are Drawn | |
| Ch. 11 | A Healthy High School Experience: You Can Make the Difference | |
| Epilogue | ||
| Appendix | Stages of Race Awareness | |
| Notes | ||
| About the Author | ||
| Index |
| Price | Condition | Delivery | Seller | Action |
| $99.99 | Digital |
| WonderClub |
Daria Hargreaves
reviewed I'm Chocolate, You're Vanilla: Raising Healthy Black and Biracial Children in a Race-Conscious World: A Guide for Parents and Teachers on November 11, 2009
I'm Chocolate, You're Vanilla: Raising Healthy Black and Biracial Children in a Race-Conscious World: A Guide for Parents and Teachers
As a white person preparing to adopt black children, I'm reading all kinds of books about race. Interesting, provocative, challenging, enlightening books. This isn't really one of those books.
Published in 1998, it does feel a tiny bit dated, as some reviewers have mentioned. The bigger problems I see are the constant contradictions and confusing thesis. "Race totally doesn't matter to kids! Even when they say it does! Except sometimes, when it does. And it's not a big deal! No different from your shoe size (actual quote)! Except that we need to understand how different we are culturally."
Another example from the book: (paraphrasing) "Kids don't care what color skin Santa has. Their parents are making WAY too big a deal out of being politically correct. Any kid sees a guy in a big red suit and knows it's Santa." This is on the SAME PAGE as an anecdote about a 5-year-old boy seeing a black Santa at the mall and saying, "That's not Santa! He's brown!"
I think that the author has great intentions, and is probably a lovely person with whom I'd have a nice time at lunch. Although, I did find it problematic that, in a book subtitled "Raising Healthy...Children in a Race-Conscious World" she kept referring to all Asian people as "Chinese".
In conclusion, the lesson I'll take away from this book is that little tiny kids, like preschool and kindergarten age, are developmentally incapable of understanding the concept of race. So when they say things like, "I wish I were white" or "Why is he so brown", they aren't participating in the larger cultural baggage of those statements. And that's a worthwhile thing to learn.
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