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Black Baby White Hands: A
View from the Crib
Jaiya John, Charlene Maxwell (Editor), Jacqueline V. Richmond (Editor)
ISBN: 0971330816
Format: Paperback, 360pp
Pub. Date: April 2005
Publisher: Soul Water Rising
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FROM THE PUBLISHER
July 15, 1968. It is only three months following the assassination of
Martin Luther King, Jr., and the nation is burning. Black and White America
are locked in the tense grip of massive change. Into this inferno steps an
unsuspecting young White couple. Neither truly knew even a single African
American person while growing up. Now, a child will change all of that
forever. In this fateful moment, a Black baby becomes perhaps the first in
the history of New Mexico to be adopted by a White family. Here is a
brazenly honest glimpse into the mind and heart of that child, a true story
for the ages that flows like a soulful river-separated from his mother at
birth, placed into foster care, adopted, and finally reunited with his
biological family in adulthood-an astounding journey of personal discovery.
Jaiya John has opened the floodgates on his own childhood with this
piercing memoir. Black Baby White Hands, a waterfall of jazz splashing over
the rocks of love, pain and the honoring of family. Magically, this book
finds a way to sing as it cries, and to exude compassion even as it dispels
well-entrenched myths. This story is sure to find itself well worn, stained
by tears, and brushed by laughter in the lap of parents, adolescents,
educators, students and professionals. Here comes the rain and the
sunshine, all at once.
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