[.ca] I'm Chocolate, You're Vanilla: Raising Healthy Black and ... (ISBN 0787952346)

Right on the Money!!!:
This book was exactly was I was looking for. It is NOT a book about adoption. To me, the book was how from the preschool years, children start to form opinions about race on up through the high school years. Also, it's about how teachers and parents can have a profound impact on how children view themselves in situations where they would be in the minority. I would highly recommend this book especially to parents like myself (black/hispanic with a white husband). Our daughters look hispanic and we live in an entirely white community. Our girls are ALWAYS the only ones with "brown" skin (as they say) in their classrooms. This book actually helps you address some of these issues and how to talk to teachers. Excellent book!

I'm Vanilla I'm Chocolate:
I read the book(I'm Vanilla I'm Chocolate) and is real and much needed in today's society. She speaks the truth about young children, not seeing the differences of skin color, like us adults. I like her nurturing techniques. Positive talking and down playing the negativity. I carry the book and use it as a reference guide and give it as gifts. The book is needed, as a parent that wants to learn.

I'm Chocolate, You're Vanilla:
This book was the most helpful of any I've read while researching bi-racial adoption. The information offered by age and how each age actually looks at things like skin color, etc., was just what I needed. I will definitely keep this book for reference!

Didn't like book at all:
I didn't care for this book at all. I think it is a very well written book, for TEACHERS, but not for a parent who is transracially adopting a child. I was looking for a book on how I would parent an African American child and this book was more of a textbook. I think it is very misleading to have it labeled as a "must read for parents and teachers" and it should be advertised as a book for teachers. I thought "Inside Their Voices" was much more informative about the experiences of a transracially adopted child.

Deliciously insightful:
While racism in America has been superficially erased in the law books, deep-rooted prejudices and racisms still run through the conscious and unconscious core of society. In the case of the African American, our nation's most historically visible racial minority, efforts have been made to eliminate the black racial identity or security within which individuals develop subcultural bonds. Such an American mixing pot idea inherently fails to recognize epistemic human qualities of judgement and group formation. Others, even legal promoters of biracial marriage, clearly classify African Americans into two camps: "good spades" and "crazy niggers" - the obvious differences here implying that black people are either acceptable in a subservient manner or unpredictable/clannish and not to be trusted. Marguerite Wright's groundbreaking novel focuses on the reactions such confusing principles hold on the American child of any racial origin, be it minority or majority, in-group or out-group. Comparing cranial morphology, skin tone, and cultural background, Wright hopes to explain racism firstly by empirically observable differences and only then to confront the affective decisions such observations provide. Her means of doing so will be through the extended metaphor of candy: candy as it is cooked from common ingredients, candy as it is perceived by various tasters, and candy as it is thereby priced in the free economy.