Born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, M.J. Fievre, B.S. Ed, moved to the United States in 2002. She currently writes from Miami.

M.J.¿s publishing career began as a teenager in Haiti. At nineteen years-old, she signed her first book contract with Hachette-Deschamps, in Haiti, for the publication of a Young Adult book titled La Statuette Maléfique. Since then, M.J. has authored nine books in French that are widely read in Europe and the French Antilles. In 2013, One Moore Book released M.J.¿s first children¿s book, I Am Riding, written in three languages: English, French, and Haitian Creole. In 2015, Beating Windward Press published M.J.¿s memoir, A Sky the Color of Chaos, about her childhood in Haiti during the brutal regime of Jean-Bertrand Aristide. Her latest books include Happy, Okay?: Poems about Anxiety, Depression, Hope, and Survival and the bestseller Badass Black Girl.

A long-time educator and frequent keynote speaker (Tufts University, Massachusetts; Howard University, Washington, D.C.; the University of Miami, Florida; and Michael College, Vermont; and a panelist at the Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference, AWP), M.J. is available for book club meetings, podcast presentations, interviews and other author events. You can learn more about her and her work at her website: mjfievre.com

Contents

• Introduction
• Chapter 1: ¿The Talk¿
• Chapter 2: An Age by Age Guide to Discussing Racism from Infancy through Elementary School (Ages 0¿11 Years)
• Chapter 3: Discussing Race with Your Tweens and Teens
• Chapter 4 The Physical and Mental Toll of Racism on Your Children
• Chapter 5: Ways to Engage in Activism and How to Recognize an Ally
• Chapter 6: Living While Black
• Chapter 7: Racial Profiling and Police Encounters
• Chapter 8: The Other Black History (What Your Child Is Not Being Taught at School)
• Chapter 9: How to Explain Systemic Racism to Your Child
• Chapter 10: How to Recognize Micro- and Macroaggressions
• Chapter 11: How to Help Build a Safer Community | Organizations You Should Know
• Chapter 12: How to Encourage Creativity and Build Self-Confidence in Your Child
• Chapter 13: When Yoüre Not a Black Parent to Your Black Child
• Conclusion

"It's hard to balance protecting your child's innocence with preparing them for the realities of Black life. When--and how--do you approach racism with your children? How do you protect their physical and mental health while also preparing them for a country full of systemic racism? On the heels of 'Why Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Cafeteria?' and 'Multiplication Is for White People' comes a parenting book specifically for parents of Black kids"--Publisher marketing.