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Mothers and Race in Black and White
Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
December 2016
On Sale: December 15, 2016
160 pages
ISBN: 1442265639
EAN: 9781442265639
Kindle: B01N8Q3HZ7
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Non-Fiction
In her first book, The Presidency in Black and White,
journalist April Ryan examined race in America through her
experience as a White House reporter. In this book, she
shifts the conversation from the White House to every home
in America. At Mama’s Knee looks at race and race relations
through the lessons that mothers transmit to their children.
As a single African American mother in Baltimore, Ryan has
struggled with each gut wrenching, race related news story
to find the words to convey the right lessons to her daughters. To better understand how mothers transfer to their children
wisdom on race and race relations, she reached out to other
mothers—prominent political leaders like Hillary Clinton and
Valerie Jarrett, celebrities like Cindy Williams, and others
like Sybrina Fulton, Trayvon Martin’s mother, whose lives
have been impacted by prominent race related events. At a time when Americans still struggle to address racial
division and prejudice, their stories remind us that
attitudes change from one generation to the next and one
child at a time. Features interviews with: Sybrina Fulton, mother of Trayvon
Martin; John Lewis, congressman; Hillary Clinton, former
First Lady, Secretary of State, Presidential candidate;
Cindy Williams, actress known for role of Shirley on Laverne
& Shirley; Cory Booker, United States senator; Christopher
Darden, OJ Simpson prosecutor; Michael Cole, actor best
known for role of Pete on The Mod Squad; Valerie Jarrett,
presidential advisor; Kerry Kennedy, daughter of Robert and
Ethel Kennedy; Iyanla Vansant, author, life coach and
television personality; Harry Belafonte, singer, songwriter,
actor, and social activist; President Barack Obama; and
President Jimmy Carter.
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