Raising Confident Black Kids: A Comprehensive Guide for Empowering Parents and Teachers of Black Children

by M. J. Fievre

Overview

How to Raise Black Kids in a Racist World

#1 New Release in Teacher Resources and Student Life

Raising Confident Black Kids includes everything Black and multi-racial families need to know to raise empowered, confident children. From the realities of living while Black to age-appropriate ways to discuss racism with your children, educator M.J. Fievre provides a much-needed resource for parents of Black kids everywhere.

It’s hard to balance protecting your child’s innocence with preparing them for the realities of Black life. When —and how —do you approach racism with your children? How do you protect their physical and mental health while also preparing them for a country full of systemic racism? On the heels of Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria and “Multiplication Is for White People” comes a parenting book specifically for parents of Black kids.

Now, there’s a guide to help you teach your kids how to thrive —even when it feels like the world is against them. From racial profiling and police encounters to the whitewashed lessons of history taught in schools, raising Black kids is no easy feat. In Raising Confident Black Kids, teacher M.J. Fievre passes on the tips and guidance that have helped her educate her Black students, including:

• How to encourage creativity and build self-confidence in your kids
• Ways to engage in activism and help build a safer community with and for your children —and ways to rest when you need to
• How to explain systemic racism, intersectionality, and micro-aggressions

If you found guidance and inspiration from books like The Unapologetic Guide to Black Mental Health, Mother to Son, or Breathe, you’ll love Raising Confident Black Kids.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781642505597
Publisher:	Mango Media
Publication date:	11/18/2022
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	267
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, M.J. Fievre, B.S. Ed, moved to the United States in 2002. She currently writes from Miami.

M.J.’s publishing career began as a teenager in Haiti. At nineteen years-old, she signed her first book contract with Hachette-Deschamps, in Haiti, for the publication of a Young Adult book titled La Statuette Maléfique. Since then, M.J. has authored nine books in French that are widely read in Europe and the French Antilles. In 2013, One Moore Book released M.J.’s first children’s book, I Am Riding, written in three languages: English, French, and Haitian Creole. In 2015, Beating Windward Press published M.J.’s memoir, A Sky the Color of Chaos, about her childhood in Haiti during the brutal regime of Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Her latest books include Happy, Okay?: Poems about Anxiety, Depression, Hope, and Survival and the bestseller Badass Black Girl.

A long-time educator and frequent keynote speaker (Tufts University, Massachusetts; Howard University, Washington, D.C.; the University of Miami, Florida; and Michael College, Vermont; and a panelist at the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference, AWP), M.J. is available for book club meetings, podcast presentations, interviews and other author events. You can learn more about her and her work at her website: mjfievre.com

Table of Contents

Contents

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: “The Talk”
• Chapter 2: An Age by Age Guide to Discussing Racism from Infancy through Elementary School (Ages 0–11 Years)
• Chapter 3: Discussing Race with Your Tweens and Teens
• Chapter 4 The Physical and Mental Toll of Racism on Your Children
• Chapter 5: Ways to Engage in Activism and How to Recognize an Ally
• Chapter 6: Living While Black
• Chapter 7: Racial Profiling and Police Encounters
• Chapter 8: The Other Black History (What Your Child Is Not Being Taught at School)
• Chapter 9: How to Explain Systemic Racism to Your Child
• Chapter 10: How to Recognize Micro- and Macroaggressions
• Chapter 11: How to Help Build a Safer Community | Organizations You Should Know
• Chapter 12: How to Encourage Creativity and Build Self-Confidence in Your Child
• Chapter 13: When You’re Not a Black Parent to Your Black Child
• Conclusion

What People are Saying About This

From the Publisher

“Expertly and effectively written, thoroughly ‘parent friendly’ in organization and presentation, informed and informative throughout, Raising Confident Black Kids: A Comprehensive Guide for Empowering Parents and Teachers of Black Children is especially and unreservedly recommended for community library Contemporary Parenting collections. It should be noted for the personal reading lists of all parents, mentors, and teachers of black children that Raising Confident Black Kids is also readily available in a digital book format.”
—James A. Cox, editor-in-chief of Midwest Book Review