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Index
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Epigraph
Introduction
Part 1: Birthing While Black: The Journey to Motherhood
Chapter 1: My Escort into Motherhood
Chapter 2: Birthing While Black
Chapter 3: Birthing Babies in Jim Crow South
Chapter 4: Going It Alone
Chapter 5: My Super Weird Pregnancy Craving
Chapter 6: The Baby Who Never Was
Chapter 7: Adoption and “The Blood”: Embracing the True Meaning of Love, Family, and the Ties That Bind
Part 2: New Motherhood
Chapter 8: Nipples and Ninny
Chapter 9: Cry It Out: The Method That Kills Baby Brain Cells
Chapter 10: Photos of Celebrity Post-Baby Bodies Suck for Making Us Feel Craptastic about Our Baby Weight
Chapter 11: Remembering the Newborn-in-Public Jitters
Chapter 12: Advice for Dealing with Baby No. 2, from a Mom Who’s Been There
Chapter 13: Black & Proud: Tending to the Self-Esteem of Black Children
Chapter 14: For Black Children Who Color Outside the Lines
Chapter 15: The Attack against Black Girl Beauty
Chapter 16: The Sun Will Surely Make You Black
Chapter 17: The Part Where My Daughter Starts Hating Her Bootylicious Butt
Chapter 18: How I Help My Daughter Embrace Her Beauty
Chapter 19: Raising 14-Year-Olds Ain’t for Punks
Part 3: Raising Them Up: The Nuts and Bolts of Parenting Black Children
Chapter 20: Baby Ear Piercing: Maybe It’s Just a Cultural Thing—or a Mom’s Prerogative
Chapter 21: Young, Gifted, and Black
Chapter 22: The Most Important Advocate
Chapter 23: Indulging My Daughters’ Passions
Chapter 24: Easing Mommy Guilt: 20 Quick Ways to Connect with Your Baby When Time Is Short
Chapter 25: School Dress Codes Unfairly Target Black Girls & I’m Tired of It
Chapter 26: On Free Range Parenting and Letting Kids Run Amok
Chapter 27: Hanging Up The Belt: Finding My Way to the Time-Outs
Chapter 28: Hello. My Name Is Denene Millner and I’m a Screamer.
Chapter 29: Hitting Kids Is Dead Wrong
Part 4: Beyond The Lights: Loosening Pop Culture’s Hold on Black Children
Chapter 30: Damn That Lil Wayne
Chapter 31: Don’t You Wish Your Daughter Was Hot like Tyra?
Chapter 32: We’re Too Bougie for BET
Chapter 33: Fear of a Black Booty
Chapter 34: Confession: I Let My Kids Watch Reality TV
Part 5: Hair Stories: The Joys, Pains, and Politics of Black Children’s Kinky Curls
Chapter 35: Kinky, Curly, Lovely Black Girl Hair
Chapter 36: Lessons on Touching, Rocking, and Loving Kinks & Curls
Chapter 37: Natural Hair Wars
Chapter 38: A Teen Struggles to Rock Her Locs Proudly, Courageously
Chapter 39: Who Needs White Celebrities to Say Locs Are Beautiful When WE Can?
Part 6: The Souls of Black Folk: Parenting Beyond Stereotypes
Chapter 40: The Tiger Mom Effect
Chapter 41: The Duality of African American Life
Chapter 42: 200 Words on Racism, Black Families, and Our Inalienable Right to Just Be
Chapter 43: Just Say NO to the Stereotyping of African American Parents and Other Moms and Dads of Color
Chapter 44: Evil Black Men
Chapter 45: The Truth about Black Fathers
Chapter 46: The Complexity of Us
Chapter 47: Why White Parents Should Teach Their Children about Race
Part 7: They’ll Wear the Armor: Black Children and Racism
Chapter 48: Guarding My Babies from the “N” Word
Chapter 49: Fighting Words: On the “N” Word & My Children’s Response to It
Chapter 50: Black Boy Swagger, Black Mom Fear
Chapter 51: Racist Selfie Mocking Black Child Makes Me Remember Why I Never Hired White Sitters
Chapter 52: Black Children and “White People Sports”
Chapter 53: Racist College Culture & Black Student Survival at University
Part 8: The Martyrs: On Black Children, Race, and Lives That Mattered
Chapter 54: The George Zimmerman Verdict Is Deeply Inhumane. This Is Why We Need to Keep Fighting.
Chapter 55: ENOUGH. (Don’t Let Aiyana Jones Die in Vain.)
Chapter 56: No Safe Place for Black Children
Chapter 57: Five Valuable Lessons for What Kids Should Do in Volatile Encounters with Strangers and Cops
Chapter 58: Seriously, Can We Stop Calling Cops on Little Black Kids Already?
Part 9: My Brown Baby Matters: The Politics of Raising Black Children
Chapter 59: Newt Gingrich to Poor Black Mothers and Children: Pick Up a Broom, Lazy Asses
Chapter 60: Dear Michele Bachmann: Shut Up about Black Moms and Breastfeeding
Chapter 61: Wisconsin Senator Thinks Single Parenthood Is Child Abuse—and Proposes Bill to Make It So
Chapter 62: Teen Girls Can Suck It
Chapter 63: Marissa Mayer, Yahoo’s New (Pregnant) CEO, Isn’t Special
Chapter 64: The Fake Mommy Wars
Part 10: Mother Love
Chapter 65: I’ll Always Love My Mama
Chapter 66: The Women Who Helped Raise Me & the BFFs Who Show My Girlpies How to Be
Chapter 67: A Love Letter to the Woman Who Gave Me Away
Chapter 68: Telling the Truth about Balancing Work & Motherhood
Chapter 69: My Biggest Competition Is THIS Woman. Who’s Yours?
Chapter 70: The Working Mom’s Survival Kit: 15 Ways to Make Life More Manageable
Chapter 71: That Mommy Smell
Chapter 72: How Mommy Got Her Groove Back
Chapter 73: There’s No Place like Home
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Copyright
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