Marion Kilson is an anthropologist and the author of Claiming Place: Biracial Young Adults of the Post-Civil Rights Era (Bergin & Garvey 2000). Florence Ladd is a psychologist and won the Black Caucus of the American Library Association award for her novel, Sarah's Psalm (Scribner 1997).

• Chapter 1 ForewordChapter 2 Chapter 1: The Back Story of Is That Your Child?Chapter 3 Chapter 2: Challenges and Rewards for Mothers of Biracial ChildrenChapter 4 Chapter 3: Profiles of Mothers of Biracial ChildrenChapter 5 Chapter 4: Nurturing Biracial Children: Some Lessons LearnedChapter 6 Appendix I: Interracial Marriages in the United StatesChapter 7 Appendix II: Some Sociological Attributes of MothersChapter 8 Appendix III: Selected Multiracial Resources

Starting with the audacious question posed to these mothers by absolute strangers, "Is that your child?" Marion Kilson and Florence Ladd take us on a fascinating and informative journey into the social and psychological challenges of parenting biracial children in a society still wrestling with demons left over from our racial past. The authors' careful presentation of selected socialization themes in identity development—race and gender, sometimes distinct, at other times overlapping—provide a glimpse of parenting strategies black and white mothers have discovered necessary to minimize the effects of race-based rejection and affirm healthy development in their biracial offspring. This is an important and valuable contribution to the emerging literature on biracial family life in the post civil rights era.

Marion Kilson is an anthropologist and the author of Claiming Place: Biracial Young Adults of the Post-Civil Rights Era (Bergin & Garvey 2000). Florence Ladd is a psychologist and won the Black Caucus of the American Library Association award for her novel, Sarah's Psalm (Scribner 1997).

• Chapter 1 ForewordChapter 2 Chapter 1: The Back Story of Is That Your Child?Chapter 3 Chapter 2: Challenges and Rewards for Mothers of Biracial ChildrenChapter 4 Chapter 3: Profiles of Mothers of Biracial ChildrenChapter 5 Chapter 4: Nurturing Biracial Children: Some Lessons LearnedChapter 6 Appendix I: Interracial Marriages in the United StatesChapter 7 Appendix II: Some Sociological Attributes of MothersChapter 8 Appendix III: Selected Multiracial Resources

Starting with the audacious question posed to these mothers by absolute strangers, "Is that your child?" Marion Kilson and Florence Ladd take us on a fascinating and informative journey into the social and psychological challenges of parenting biracial children in a society still wrestling with demons left over from our racial past. The authors' careful presentation of selected socialization themes in identity development—race and gender, sometimes distinct, at other times overlapping—provide a glimpse of parenting strategies black and white mothers have discovered necessary to minimize the effects of race-based rejection and affirm healthy development in their biracial offspring. This is an important and valuable contribution to the emerging literature on biracial family life in the post civil rights era.

Marion Kilson is an anthropologist and the author of Claiming Place: Biracial Young Adults of the Post-Civil Rights Era (Bergin & Garvey 2000). Florence Ladd is a psychologist and won the Black Caucus of the American Library Association award for her novel, Sarah's Psalm (Scribner 1997).

• Chapter 1 ForewordChapter 2 Chapter 1: The Back Story of Is That Your Child?Chapter 3 Chapter 2: Challenges and Rewards for Mothers of Biracial ChildrenChapter 4 Chapter 3: Profiles of Mothers of Biracial ChildrenChapter 5 Chapter 4: Nurturing Biracial Children: Some Lessons LearnedChapter 6 Appendix I: Interracial Marriages in the United StatesChapter 7 Appendix II: Some Sociological Attributes of MothersChapter 8 Appendix III: Selected Multiracial Resources

Starting with the audacious question posed to these mothers by absolute strangers, "Is that your child?" Marion Kilson and Florence Ladd take us on a fascinating and informative journey into the social and psychological challenges of parenting biracial children in a society still wrestling with demons left over from our racial past. The authors' careful presentation of selected socialization themes in identity development—race and gender, sometimes distinct, at other times overlapping—provide a glimpse of parenting strategies black and white mothers have discovered necessary to minimize the effects of race-based rejection and affirm healthy development in their biracial offspring. This is an important and valuable contribution to the emerging literature on biracial family life in the post civil rights era.