Talkin' Back Raising and Educating Resilient Black Girls

Subjects:

• Education » Multicultural Education

Reviews:

• [H]ighly recommended for parents, educators, and anyone interested in seeing a change in American society.
  —Multicultural Review Fall 2004
• [O]ffers strategies to give black girls equitable learning opportunities in school ....[e]mphasizes the importance not only of involving parents and caregivers, but also the community and the school system.
  —Black Issues Book Review October 31, 2004

• Endorsement From James P. Comer, M.D., M.P.H.
  Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry, Yale Child Study Center
  Associate Dean, Yale School of Medicine: Dierdre Glenn Paul has provided us with a valuable tool. In Talkin' Back: Raising and Educating Resilient Black Girls she demonstrates the great importance of nurturing and fostering opportunities for black pre- and early adolescent girls....Through powerful historical accounts, research and analysis, she gives us a way to understand the challenges, and practical strategies for overcoming them.
• Endorsement From Freeman A. Hrabowski, III
  President, University of Maryland, Baltimore County: Illuminates many of the major obstacles confronting young black women in America today. Most important, it also offers workable strategies for parents, schools, and communities for nurturing and empowering young black women to become strong, resilient, and successful women.
• Endorsement From James P. Comer, M.D.
  Maurice Falk Professor of Child Psychiatry
  Associate Dean
  Yale School of Medicine: Dierdre Glenn Paul has provided us with a valuable tool....She demonstrates the great importance of nurturing and fostering opportunities for Black pre- and early adolescent girls. She shows how strong alliances between parents, educators and positive community role models lead to personal and academic success; even when they live under difficult circumstances. Through powerful historical accounts, research and analysis, she gives us a way to understand the challenges, and practical strategies for overcoming them.
• Endorsement From Freeman A. Hrabowski, III
  President
  University of Maryland, Baltimore County: ...Illuminates many of the major obstacles confronting young Black women in America today. Most important, it also offers workable strategies for parents, schools, and communities for nurturing and empowering young Black women to become strong, resilient, and successful women.

Table of Contents:

• Introduction
• The Status of Black Women in the Contemporary United States
• All the Girls Are White, All the Boys Are Black, But Some of Us Are Brave
• Coping with the Legacy of Slavery and Its Links to Childhood and Life for Contemporary Black Girls
• The Role of Parents and Caregivers in Empowering Black Girls
• What Is the Role of Community?
• What Is the Role of Schools?
• Epilogue
• Appendix A: A Resource Guide