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Dr. Marion Kilson, PhD and Florence Ladd, PhD

BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator, Marion Kilson, who received her Ph. D. in Social Anthropology from Harvard University, was Dean of the Graduate School at Salem State College from 1989-2001. Since that time she has been a Museum Scholar at the Museum of African American History in Boston. Her publications include Claiming Place: Biracial Young Adults in the Post-Civil Rights Era. Click here to contact Dr. Kilson. BlackCommentator.com Guest Commentator, Florence Ladd, who received her Ph.D. in Social Psychology from the University of Rochester, was Director of the Bunting Institute of Radcliffe College from 1989 until 1997. Her novel, Sarah’s Psalm received the 1997 best fiction award from the American Library Association’s Black Caucus. This essay is adapted from their forthcoming book, Is That Your Child?: Mothers Talk about Rearing Biracial Children, to be published by Lexington Books later in the year. Click here to contact Dr. Ladd.

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“Is That Your Child?”: Successful Strategies for Mothering Biracial Children

By Dr. Marion Kilson, PhD and Florence Ladd, PhD Guest Commentators

“Is that your child?” is a question that countless mothers of biracial children in the United States encounter whether they are African Americans or European Americans, rearing children today or a generation ago, living in cities or suburbs, are upper middle class or middle class. In our forthcoming book we probe mothers’ responses to this…

“Is that your child?” is a question that countless mothers of biracial children in the United States encounter whether they are African Americans or European Americans,…

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