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books:

The Autoimmune Epidemic: Bodies Gone Haywire in a World Out of Balance--and the Cutting-Edge Science that ...

16 reviews
Donna Jackson Nakazawa

Touchstone, 2008

Autoimmune disease, environment and medicine all in one place
I am, admittedly, a fan of the book because it tells a powerful story of a neighborhood activism in Buffalo, NY, and I was involved in that story in a small way. But the story of folks with undiagnosed autoimmune disease, how this poor, minority community had the strength of will to ask difficult questions, identify scientific collaborators in the local University, and lead a groundbreaking study ...

Does Anybody Else Look Like Me?: A Parent's Guide To Raising Multiracial Children

8 reviews
Donna Jackson Nakazawa

Da Capo Press, 2004

Highly recommend
As the mother of 4 beautiful biracial children, I was delighted to find this intelligent, realistic book. My children are often asked "What are you?" and attempts are made to label them as Arabic, Latin, Greek,Black, Italian, etc, etc. This makes it difficult for them when they are at ages where all of us were trying to "find ourselves". My daughter has also had a difficult time, often meeting ...