03491nam 2200649Ia 450 991078439610332120230422044646.00-8166-9187-8(CKB)1000000000346886(EBL)310509(OCoLC)476094892(SSID)ssj0000205858(PQKBManifestationID)11184340(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000205858(PQKBWorkID)10193137(PQKB)11404512(MiAaPQ)EBC310509(OCoLC)232159849(MdBmJHUP)muse39530(Au-PeEL)EBL310509(CaPaEBR)ebr10151297(CaONFJC)MIL522617(EXLCZ)99100000000034688620000501d2000 ub 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrMothering without a compass[electronic resource] white mother's love, Black son's courage /Becky ThompsonMinneapolis University of Minnesota Pressc20001 online resource (178 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-8166-3636-2 0-8166-3635-4 Includes bibliographical references (p. 167-[168]).Contents; Put my head in her hands, our two heads together; Witness to the telling; Limb from limb; Telling, not telling, still hurting; What part of the story do I tell?; Heart on the table, in my hands; In the age of no innocence; Lost time, in time, on time, with time; In the gaze, in the tone of the voice; Much of the script, already written; Father love; Mother love; Sex education in the 1990's; So grown; Sand beneath my feet, the tide takes its turn; Acknowledgments; Notes"In 1997, Becky Thompson began parenting nine-year-old Adrian at the request of his mother, changing both of their lives forever. Mothering without a Compass is the story of Thompson's first year as the white lesbian "sudden-mother" of an African American boy. From the everyday yet sometimes overwhelming tasks of finding Adrian a school and debating the significance of action figures, to unexpected discussions about who pays whom at the sperm bank and the more complicated matters of racism, sexuality, nontraditional families, open adoption, love, and loss, Thompson gives us an absorbing and often humorous account of her experience with antiracist, multicultural parenting." "Mothering without a Compass relates a lesbian parent's struggle to help her child grow up and describes the complexities facing children who have more than one family."--BOOK JACKET.Lesbian mothersFamily relationshipsUnited StatesWomen, WhiteFamily relationshipsUnited StatesAfrican American young menFamily relationshipsChildren of gay parentsFamily relationshipsUnited StatesMothers and sonsUnited StatesLesbian mothersFamily relationshipsWomen, WhiteFamily relationshipsAfrican American young menFamily relationships.Children of gay parentsFamily relationshipsMothers and sons306.874/3Thompson Becky W1245510MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910784396103321Mothering without a compass3712579UNINA