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		Does Anybody Else Look Like Me? A Parent's Guide to Raising Multiracial Children By Donna Jackson Nakazawa Published by Perseus Publishing wwwperseuspublishing..com Between 1990 and 2000, interracial marriages more than doubled from 1.5 million to over 4 million. The children of these couples, thought to be around 4.5 million in the US, are the fastest-growing segment of the population. US Census figures show that one in sixteen kids under 18 is multiracial, and in some counties, one in six babies being born today is multiracial. These multiracial kids, growing in astounding numbers, can have vastly different experiences. On the one hand, competently prepared multiracial youth experience advantages over their monoracial peers: they are frequently less biased and judgmental about other groups, more sensitive and accepting of others, and have the potential to move confidently within very diverse worlds of people, often bringing them together. Yet some mixed race youth face an increased risk of harmful behaviors, and a disproportionate number of kids in juvenile halls are multiracial. Recent and upcoming statistics show that what makes the difference between multiracial young people who thrive versus those who do not is whether parents and educators take the necessary steps to help them to become healthy, confident individuals. All this begs the question: How can we make sure the growing population of multiracial children ñ our students, our kids, our community ñ fall into the ìthrivingî category? Enter the new book by Donna Jackson Nakazawa Does Anybody Else Look Like Me? A Parentís Guide to Raising Multiracial Children (Perseus Publishing, July 1, 2003, $25.00), a must-read for anyone raising a multiracial child. Does Anybody Else Look Like Me? provides parents with the tools to instill in their children an appreciation of their multicultural heritage, while adequately preparing them for the difficulties that their monoracial peers may not experience. Dialogues and sample scripts show parents how to respond appropriately and knowledgeably to their children at every stage of their development and teach children how to gracefully respond to insensitive comments from peers and strangers. Also included in the book are examples of the many ways that parents can guide their multiracial children toward an unflappable sense of self, as well as bring culture to the daily lives of children. Using Does Anybody Else Look Like Me? as a resource, parents and teachers of multiracial children will be able to help their children achieve a healthy identity and emotional well-being despite the confusing situations they will face, and all parents will be able to show their children, multiracial or not, how to be sensitive, accepting and well-informed human beings. About the Author Donna Jackson Nakazawa has been a regular contributor to AARPís My Generation, as well as to Working Mother, Modern Maturity, New Woman and Baby Talk. She is married to a Japanese American and has two children. She lives in Annapolis, Maryland. This website: Copyright © 2003 Dream World Media, LLC. / Urban Mozaik Magazine. All rights reserved. The opinions expressed in Urban Mozaik Magazine are not necessarily those of Urban Mozaik Magazine and the publisher cannot be held responsible for them. This website/publication, in whole or in part, may not be reproduced without written permission from the publisher.		The Trial of Ruby McCollum: The True-Crime Story That Shook the Foundations of the Segregationist South By C. Arthur Ellis, Jr., Ph.D. and Leslie E. Ellis, Ph.D. Ruby McCollum, a wealthy African-American wife, finds herself pregnant a second time by her white physician lover. Torn between her husband, who threatens to shoot her if she has another white baby, and her lover, who threatens to shoot her if she aborts his child, Ruby chooses to murder her lover. Ruby’s trial took place in a time when there were no controls over the judge who abrogated her First Amendment Rights, yet her testimony-appearing here in print for the first time-sounded the death knell of “Paramour Rights,” the unwritten Antebellum law declaring a white man’s right to take a black woman as his paramour, whether she was married or not. Now you can read the story of sex, greed, and murder that held a small north Florida community hostage for fear of “community embarrassment” at the subterranean relationships existing between “coloreds” and “whites” in the Segregationist South of the 1950s. "I had the feeling that the trial was a conspiracy of silence. The real story took place behind a curtain of secrecy." --Zora Neale Hurston "Dr. Ellis has courageously taken a candid look at a tragedy in our history that was left unresolved. This is a must read for all Afro-American historians." -- Derrick Keith Watkins About the Authors: Art and Leslie Ellis have numerous publications to their credit over their 35 years of marriage, including self-help books, novels, and screenplays. During their tour of China in 1988, their work appeared in China Daily. The Trial of Ruby McCollum is a story close to Art’s heritage since he grew up in Live Oak, the small north Florida town where the murder took place, and knew the central characters in the drama. Over the years, William Bradford Huie’s account of the murder has been the only source for the reading public wanting to know what really happened on that hot August day in 1952 when Ruby McCollum walked into the office of Dr. C. Leroy Adams and shot him four times with her nickel-plated, .32 caliber Smith & Wesson. Now, readers can enjoy a closer look at this intriguing story—told here for the first time by someone who lived through it—and take a front row seat at the trial that shook the foundations of the Segregationist South. TO ORDER PAPERBACK, CALL TOLL-FREE: 1-888-280-7715 1st Books Library Also available from Ingram Book Group, Baker & Taylor, and www.barnesandnoble.com.