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A Place to Belong: Celebrating Diversity and Kinship in the Home and Beyond Livre relié – 17 mai 2022
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Il est révolu le temps où les parents socialement conscients se sentaient à l'aise d'enseigner à leurs enfants à simplement tolérer les autres. Au lieu de cela, ils cherchent un moyen d'embrasser authentiquement la plénitude de leurs diverses communautés. A Place to Belong offre aux familles une voie vers l'avant pour honorer leur patrimoine culturel et défendre la diversité dans le contexte de la vie familiale quotidienne en :
• Favoriser un dialogue ouvert autour de la discrimination, de la race, du sexe, du handicap et de la classe
• Enseigner l'histoire dure d'une manière adaptée à l'âge
• Organisation d'une sélection diversifiée de livres et de choix médiatiques dans lesquels les enfants se voient eux-mêmes et les gens qui sont différents.
• Célébrer le patrimoine culturel à travers l'art, la musique et la poésie
• Modélisation de l'activisme et participation à des projets de service communautaire en famille
Amber ONeal Johnston, une mère de quatre enfants scolarisée à la maison, montre aux parents de tous horizons comment créer un environnement domestique où les enfants se sentent en sécurité dans leur propre personnalité et culture, leur permettant de mieux comprendre et apprécier les personnes qui sont racialement et culturellement différentes. A Place to Belong donne aux parents les outils pour permettre aux enfants d'embrasser leur identité unique tout en se sentant magnifiquement attachés à leur communauté mondiale.
- Longueur d'impression304 pages
- LangueAnglais
- ÉditeurTarcherPerigee
- Date de publication17 mai 2022
- Dimensions15.77 x 2.74 x 23.65 cm
- ISBN-10059342185X
- ISBN-13978-0593421857
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—Ainsley Arment, author of The Call of the Wild and Free
"Amber O’Neal Johnston has written a deeply thoughtful book that will provoke all who read it to broaden their view of people in their personal context and in the beauty of their own unique lives and cultures. A great read indeed!"
—Sally Clarkson, coauthor of The Lifegiving Home
“Amber O’Neal Johnston has penned an engaging and comprehensive guide for families of all backgrounds who are curious or committed to engaging in a diverse and inclusive lifestyle. Johnston’s book is a refreshing reminder that humanity is shared, imperfect, and beautiful. Highly recommended.”
—Charnaie Gordon, creator of Here Wee Read
“As an adoptive mom raising children whose race and culture are different from my own, I deeply believe in Amber’s message and in every family's need for this important book. Her writing style is kind and informed, gently pointing readers to resources and practices to introduce their kids to a wider, more vibrant world. I wish I could have had this book a decade ago to guide our path, but I’m grateful to have it now as I continue to make sure that every member of our family knows they have a place to belong.”
—Jamie C. Martin, author ofGive Your Child the World
"In A Place to Belong, Amber O’Neal Johnston offers a pathway toward inclusivity that is marked, not with trite words and meaningless gestures, but with practical steps and helpful encouragement. She puts forth a beautiful vision for celebrating the uniqueness of your family while cultivating respect and appreciation for the differences of others."
—Jasmine L. Holmes, author of Carved in Ebony
“A Place to Belong captivated me from the very start. Amber offers a wealth of tools to help every family grow in their appreciation and connection to people who are different than them, racially, socially, or culturally. And she does it all in a way that is laced with hope and joy! A Place to Belong is going to change hearts and lives for years to come.”
—Greta Eskridge, author of Adventuring Together
“With authenticity, heart, and vulnerability, Amber lays out a clear plan to create a home culture that honors your family's heritage and celebrates others. Whether you're Black, a person of color, or white, there is something more we can all do to investigate our own history and appreciate what everyone brings to the table."
—Delina Pryce McPhaull, creator of the “Oh Freedom!” curriculum
"Amber O'Neal Johnston gets it! A Place to Belong acts as a compass in navigating tough history and cultural identity conversations within a family. It reminds us to embrace our culture and to honor our history."
—Sheva Quinn, EdD, coauthor of African American Families: Why We Homeschool
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What Are You Bringing to the Table?
To put the world in order, we must first put the nation in order; to put the nation in order, we must first put the family in order; to put the family in order, we must first cultivate our personal life; we must first set our hearts right.
-Confucius, Chinese philosopher
My children love playing with the chandelier hanging in our dining room when sunlight pours in from the high foyer window. We inherited this formal lighting fixture from the previous homeowners, and it doesn't match the relaxed decor of our home, so it was one of many things I'd planned to change as soon as we moved in. But seeing my kids' joy in chasing rainbows formed by the hanging prisms led me to leave it untouched. And even though it initially struck me as fussy and unappealing, the ornate light has become a fun focal point in the center of our home.
One day, I found my youngest kiddo standing atop the table, jangling the prisms, and before I could chastise him for having his chubby toes where they didn't belong, he squealed with delight and exclaimed, "Look, Mama! We have colors everywhere!" Forgetting my plans for admonishment, I smiled at how delighted he was at that moment, and it was then that the idea of having a colorful home began to cement in my mind.
Though my son's experience was quite literal, I envisioned a home atmosphere where we metaphorically celebrate colorful people like dancing rainbows. Each stripe dons its own unique shade while blending with its neighbor to create something more spectacular than any single color can achieve on its own. The afternoon rainbows on our walls remind me of the beauty of both individuality and togetherness lying alongside one another, and that's an idea I want to permeate my home.
I do hope that my children always feel magnificent in their skin. Not because they're convinced that they are somehow more special than others but because they embrace their differences while recognizing that we're better together. In short, I want them to form an identity around being a meaningful member of a colorful local and global community.
In her memoir, actress Tembi Locke considered the question "Do I belong here?" And after decades of trying to answer the question for strangers, the world, and herself, she concluded, "I had learned that identity is prismatic, that belonging requires claiming." I loved her words from the moment I read them. I understood, instinctively, that the concept of identity as a prism was compelling. Still, I had to sit with the thought for a while before assimilating it with my hopes for a colorful family culture.
Aside from the obvious connotation of being related to a prism, "prismatic" means varied and brilliant. Colorful. Another definition is "formed, separated, or distributed" by something acting as a prism. Identity is not a simple one-dimensional concept. It is a complex and colorful notion that actively develops through the prisms of experience and affiliation. Identity is not something that someone can put upon another person, but the home environment plays a crucial role in our children's identity development. Identity can be strengthened and supported under the careful watch of loving parents or marred by indifference and trauma. But for it to be authentic, it must be claimed.
For some families, including my own, a significant aspect of formed identity relates to religious convictions, and for the longest time, I felt like no further thinking on the matter was required. But I've since come to realize that parents have a responsibility to teach and guide within the context of our faith or without the overlay of any spiritual beliefs at all, depending on our personal convictions. So how do we go about helping our children claim an identity or self-concept that honors who they are while assuring that they can and do embrace others?
We are all individuals, but we are also part of something greater. To ignore either aspect can foster a poor sense of self, one of self-deprecation or self-adulation, situated at polarizing ends of the spectrum of belonging. Take the time to consider the messages your children may absorb from how you communicate your cultural identity and how you think and speak about others. Just as children have front-row seats to our passions and preferences, they also absorb our indifferences and insecurities. And sometimes those are communicated more loudly than we imagine.
What are you bringing to the table? The following sections include some questions to consider as you prepare to address past beliefs and behaviors, challenge the status quo, and welcome change within your home.
Cultural Heritage and Family Background
Explore who you are, where you come from, and how your past informs what you currently think, do, and say because your children will draw from the strengths and inconsistencies of your identity as they claim their own.
Who are you? What makes up your identity, and how does that shape your daily life?
How does your cultural heritage manifest physically, and how do you feel about it? And by physically, I don't just mean how you look. I also mean your physical space. Are there things in your environment that speak to who you are and where you come from?
How do the physical manifestations of your cultural heritage align with or differ from that of your children? If they differ, how is your child's cultural heritage manifested in your home?
How do you feel about who you are? What about the people from whom you have descended? Do you know anything about your ancestors? Are there parts of your lifestyle, celebrations, thoughts, or speech that reflect them or their lived experiences?
Do you help your children connect the dots between their immediate family, the generations before, and those who will come after them?
Did your parents or other members of your family hold biased or racist views as you were growing up? Do you still believe some of what you heard? If not, how were you able to grapple with what was said? How does the memory of it impact you today?
Why are you interested in creating an inclusive home environment? What do you want to do differently in your home versus the home in which you were raised?
Which aspects of your childhood home would you like to replicate?
Socialization and Community
Take inventory of who your family does life with and ascertain how your micro-community came to be. Acknowledge what's working in your social circles, and parse through any disconnect between the environment you want your children raised in and the environment your family swims in today.
If you're white, do you or have you ever had many close friends of color?
Do you believe that having close friends of color helps with cultural understanding? If so, how? If not, why not?
If you're a person of color, how much of your time is spent in all or mostly white environments? Are you comfortable with your current social circle?
What about your children? How do you (and they) feel about the community in which they're being raised?
If applicable, what do your children think about often being "the only one" in their environment?
How diverse are your social circles? Is the degree of inclusivity, or lack thereof, intentional? If your environment is homogenous (e.g., all white or all Black), what prevents you from engaging in a more diverse community?
Do you think your social circles are exclusive? Why or why not?
Do you find yourself consciously leaning into or avoiding friendships with people of color? What about friendships with white people? If so, why? How have your past experiences shaped that inclination?
What do you think about people of underrepresented cultures intentionally supporting one another and connecting alone as a group?
Can you easily connect with people who look different than you? Are you able to communicate easily? Do you see them as peers?
What topics do you find challenging to discuss with white people? People of color? Why do they make you uncomfortable?
Détails du produit
- Éditeur : TarcherPerigee (17 mai 2022)
- Langue : Anglais
- Livre relié : 304 pages
- ISBN-10 : 059342185X
- ISBN-13 : 978-0593421857
- Poids de l’article : 471 g
- Dimensions : 15.77 x 2.74 x 23.65 cm
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À propos de l’auteur
Amber O'Neal Johnston lives in Georgia nestled among pine trees, hammocks and ziplines with her husband and their four children. Her happy place is the back porch on a rainy day, preferably with a giant mug of hot tea and a good book. And although she was raised in the air conditioning, somehow the woods is where she feels most at home these days. When they have the chance, her family enjoys extended worldschooling trips to immerse themselves in other cultures, so you can often find her researching their next home away from home. Amber writes and speaks about the beauty of an inclusive, culturally and socially conscious home environment, and she enjoys sharing diverse literary mirrors and windows at Heritagemom.com and on IG @heritagemomblog.
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A few highlights for me from each section:
Part 1 — Family culture exists, whether we have chosen to articulate it or not. The author shares ways for parents to identify our families’ values and create meaningful ways to share them with our children. Kids sometimes have tough questions; is our home one in which they know they have a safe way to bring up hard topics? The author shares practical ways to enable our children to have those risky but important conversations with us.
Part 2 — Curating the family library. What books do we choose to have in our homes? Do we have books that help our children see the potential they have? Do we also have books that help them value others and see from different perspectives? The author shares the concept of books that are mirrors and those that are windows; while both are valuable in their own way, having just one or the other limits what children can envision, and how they see themselves & others. I really appreciate how she addressed what’s appropriate and helpful at different developmental stages. Defining what makes a book “good” is more than how old it is or how many people have been required to read it!
Part 3 — Shaping our own homes. From family cookbooks and keepsake chests to family portraits and handicrafts, the author shares concrete ideas of how to make our homes rich in family culture and belonging. She also addresses tough topics like media usage & hard history in this section, as well as ways to share the love of beauty in music, visual art, poetry, and nature.
Part 4 — Moving beyond our own homes. When children are secure in their families and themselves, they’re more able to reach our and love others. Have you ever thought of living in another country for a month or more with your children? The author has, and shares some of the ups & downs, as well as practical advice on how to make such a trip financially feasible. What local groups do we belong to? Are there people who are “like us”, who share our race, background, and/or values? Is our family the lone representative of some aspect of ourselves? The author discusses how different groups can be important in a very personal way, and goes on to share concrete examples of how we can model loving our neighbors so our children can carry on that legacy.
This book spoke to me as a parent, an educator, and a person. I recommend it without reservation.
Commenté aux États-Unis le 2 juin 2022
A few highlights for me from each section:
Part 1 — Family culture exists, whether we have chosen to articulate it or not. The author shares ways for parents to identify our families’ values and create meaningful ways to share them with our children. Kids sometimes have tough questions; is our home one in which they know they have a safe way to bring up hard topics? The author shares practical ways to enable our children to have those risky but important conversations with us.
Part 2 — Curating the family library. What books do we choose to have in our homes? Do we have books that help our children see the potential they have? Do we also have books that help them value others and see from different perspectives? The author shares the concept of books that are mirrors and those that are windows; while both are valuable in their own way, having just one or the other limits what children can envision, and how they see themselves & others. I really appreciate how she addressed what’s appropriate and helpful at different developmental stages. Defining what makes a book “good” is more than how old it is or how many people have been required to read it!
Part 3 — Shaping our own homes. From family cookbooks and keepsake chests to family portraits and handicrafts, the author shares concrete ideas of how to make our homes rich in family culture and belonging. She also addresses tough topics like media usage & hard history in this section, as well as ways to share the love of beauty in music, visual art, poetry, and nature.
Part 4 — Moving beyond our own homes. When children are secure in their families and themselves, they’re more able to reach our and love others. Have you ever thought of living in another country for a month or more with your children? The author has, and shares some of the ups & downs, as well as practical advice on how to make such a trip financially feasible. What local groups do we belong to? Are there people who are “like us”, who share our race, background, and/or values? Is our family the lone representative of some aspect of ourselves? The author discusses how different groups can be important in a very personal way, and goes on to share concrete examples of how we can model loving our neighbors so our children can carry on that legacy.
This book spoke to me as a parent, an educator, and a person. I recommend it without reservation.
This book made me realise that a lot of what makes 'me' has been concealed from my children. This is my starting point for change, showing my culture and giving my stories.
'Books are by no means panaceas, but the more children read about the real lives outside their bubbles, the richer their relationships and experiences will be. '- Amber O'Neal Johnston
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I'm aware that I'm limiting my children's view of the world by not providing windows that transcend race and gender. I've been spurred to make plans for my picture wall of 'mirrors' and 'windows'. I am starting a family timeline. I'm investing in my children knowing who they are. My language has changed. I needed this book.
Amber is like a big sis cheering you on without judging you, inspiring you to do better without condemning you, and giving you an encouraging glance when you're doing good.
As a woman who can sometimes tend towards certain extremes, I'm an ennenagram 1, I really appreciated how Johnston started off her book from a place of nuance. She's not sharing from a bias of "you should be completely afrocentric in everything you do," nor is she apologetic towards the very felt-need for children to have a strong cultural identity and intentional "mirrors" placed in one's home through books, music, poetry, etc.
Secondly, I appreciated that Johnston constantly interwove her own personal journey as to how she landed on the thoughtful wisdom that she asserts throughout the book. She doesn't just say, "yeah, you should do this." She completely unravels the detailed journey of her story that led her to such wisdom. It made it that much more fun reading some of her conclusive thoughts.
Thirdly, I love that this book can be given to any person of ANY background and can challenge him or her to think more intentionally regarding how to make a child more apt to connect with all of humanity and not just those who might look like him or her. The questions posed in the very beginning make for great conversation to have with oneself and with any caregiver.
LASTLY, this book contains detailed resources to look into if you want to curate a more diverse library in your home, or look into different poets, or study different artists. I was a bit shocked that Johnston didn't end the book with, "become a member of this website and I'll share these resources with you." No, Johnston literally spills all the beans on books, poets, websites, resources to have in your back pocket to start your journey towards creating a more diverse perspective within any child (even if you don't finish the book...these gems are dropped throughout the book's entirety).
Kk. I'm done. Just read the book. You will learn quite a bit. Be challenged in areas you least expect. And enjoy some good story telling.