He has a poetic way of writing, but it is so intense that you often got lost in the words and miss the meaning. But immediately upon finishing it, wanted to start it again. But it is important to validate my future daughter's feelings and be a support system for her. It made his biological mother very uncomfortable and I can't remember the exact quote, but she said something like, "You're being funny about this." I could see myself wanting to slip past conversations that will be hard and will make us uncomfortable. It was very hard for him to watch it and see the horror that was slavery in this country. One of the parts of the story that stuck out to me was when he watched Roots. We will discuss it and I will do everything I can to help her feel proud of the way she looks and how it represents her culture. We will not ignore the color of my daughter's skin. I will strive to keep lines of communication open. I hope so much that we get information about her biological family so that we can share that with her. I am going to do my best to learn from his story and be very clear with our daughter about her adoption story. This book intimidated me, he makes it clear that his adoptive parents did there very best to make him feel loved and every much a part of their family as their biological children were. The book focuses on his struggles growing up one of the very few black people in his family/community/school. He was born in 1968 and his adoptive family lived in an overwhelmingly white community. The story is a memoir of the first African American baby to be adopted by a white family in New Mexico. I think it's good that I have read it and am going to focus on what I learned from it and not all the fears it raised in me. I'm relieved it's over! I'm going to have to read something fluffy next! Every time I read from it it took an effort to pick it up. I started it last winter and finally finished it tonight. This book was so difficult for me to read. His Indigenous soul dreams of frybread, sweetgrass, bamboo in the breeze, and turtle lakes whose poetry is peace. As an undergraduate, he attended Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, and lived in Kathmandu, Nepal, where he studied Tibetan Holistic Medicine through independent research with Tibetan doctors and trekked to the base camp of Mt. Jaiya is a former National Science Foundation fellow, and holds doctorate and master’s degrees in social psychology from the University of California, Santa Cruz, with a focus on intergroup and race relations. He is a former professor of social psychology at Howard University, and has spoken to over a million people worldwide and audiences as large as several thousand. Jaiya writes, narrates, and produces the podcast, I Will Read for You: The Voice and Writings of Jaiya John, and is the founder of Freedom Project, a global initiative reviving traditional gathering and storytelling practices to fertilize social healing and liberation. He is the author of numerous books, including Fragrance After Rain, Daughter Drink This Water, and, Freedom: Medicine Words for your Brave Revolution. Jaiya is the founder of Soul Water Rising, a global rehumanizing mission to eradicate oppression that has donated thousands of Jaiya’s books in support of social healing, and offers grants and scholarships to displaced and vulnerable youth. Jaiya John was orphan-born on Ancient Puebloan lands in the high desert of New Mexico, and is an internationally recognized freedom worker, author, and poet. Here comes the rain and the sunshine, all at once.ĭr. Destined to become a classic, this stirring account is sure to find itself well worn, stained by tears, and brushed by laughter in the lap of parents, adolescents, educators, students, and professionals. Magically, this book finds a way to sing as it cries, and to exude compassion even as it dispels well-entrenched myths. Black Baby White Hands, a waterfall of jazz splashing over the rocks of love, pain and the honoring of family. Jaiya John has opened the floodgates on his own childhood with this piercing memoir. 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. In this fateful moment, a Black baby becomes perhaps the first in the history of New Mexico to be adopted by a White family. Now, a child will change all of that forever. Neither had truly known even a single African American person while growing up. Into this inferno steps an unsuspecting young White couple. Black and White America are locked in the tense grip of massive change. It is only three months following the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr., and the nation is burning.
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