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Undoing the myth of White=beauty: Reading Snow White to my daughter

May 27, 2016 · by Raising Race Conscious Children · in Early Childhood, Elementary School, Gender, Race, Racial Identity, Sachi Feris, STRATEGY: AFFIRM CHILDREN'S QUESTIONS, STRATEGY: CHALLENGE STEREOTYPES, STRATEGY: CHILDREN AND ACTIVISM, STRATEGY: CONSIDER FEELINGS, STRATEGY: FAIRNESS/UNFAIRNESS, STRATEGY: NAME RACE/WHITENESS, STRATEGY: SPEAK TO IMAGES/WORDS, Toddlers, White Privilege

by Sachi Feris A friend had been staying in our apartment while we were on vacation and left some Disney-version fairytale books from her Spanish class for my then-two-and-a-half-year-old daughter. Among them, “Snow White and the Seven Dwarves” which my…

“People decide for themselves how they want to identify” or dismantling the gender binary with my children

May 21, 2016 · by Raising Race Conscious Children · in Babies, Early Childhood, Elementary School, Gender, Sachi Feris, STRATEGY: AFFIRM CHILDREN'S QUESTIONS, STRATEGY: CHALLENGE STEREOTYPES, STRATEGY: EXPLORE THROUGH PLAY, STRATEGY: NAME RACE/WHITENESS, STRATEGY: SPEAK TO IMAGES/WORDS, Toddlers

by Sachi Feris The other day I overheard my mom reading a board book of “first words” to my eight-month-old son. On the first fold of the book, she read: “girl” and then “boy.” “When we read,” I told my…

Staceyann and Zuri Chin’s Living Room Protests: A conversation with Staceyann

May 13, 2016 · by Raising Race Conscious Children · in Early Childhood, Elementary School, Gender, Racial Identity, Sachi Feris, STRATEGY: AFFIRM CHILDREN'S QUESTIONS, STRATEGY: CHALLENGE STEREOTYPES, STRATEGY: CHILDREN AND ACTIVISM, STRATEGY: CONSIDER FEELINGS, STRATEGY: EXPLORE THROUGH PLAY, STRATEGY: FAIRNESS/UNFAIRNESS, STRATEGY: SPEAK TO IMAGES/WORDS, Toddlers, Uncategorized

by Sachi Feris Performance artist Staceyann Chin and her four-year-old daughter, Zuri, have been modeling powerful conversations about positive racial identity, gender identity, children’s rights, human rights, and many other important topics over the past year. These conversations are child-centric,…

SURJ MAY DAY ACTION WITH CHILDREN TOOLKIT

May 1, 2016 · by Raising Race Conscious Children · in Class, Early Childhood, Elementary School, Middle Grades, Sachi Feris, STRATEGY: CHILDREN AND ACTIVISM, STRATEGY: FAIRNESS/UNFAIRNESS, STRATEGY: SPEAK TO IMAGES/WORDS, Toddlers

Raising Race Conscious Children is honored to have partnered with Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ) to create this May Day Action with Children Toolkit. Below, you will find book suggestions and talking points/questions you can ask as you engage your children…

The Third Little Pig: A lesson on wealth redistribution

April 19, 2016 · by Raising Race Conscious Children · in Babies, Class, Early Childhood, Elementary School, Sachi Feris, STRATEGY: CHALLENGE STEREOTYPES, STRATEGY: FAIRNESS/UNFAIRNESS, STRATEGY: SPEAK TO IMAGES/WORDS, Toddlers, White Privilege

by Sachi Feris While I was in Argentina recently, I found a pop-up version of “The Three Little Pigs” in Spanish, which I purchased and quickly became one of my son’s favorite books. After about 100 readings, literally, it occurred…

How (and why) I introduced gender identity to my 3-year-old son

April 15, 2016 · by Raising Race Conscious Children · in Early Childhood, Gender, Shannon Cofrin Gaggero, STRATEGY: AFFIRM CHILDREN'S QUESTIONS, STRATEGY: CHALLENGE STEREOTYPES, Toddlers

by guest blogger Shannon Cofrin Gaggero My husband and I are striving to raise our children outside the confines of traditional gender norms. We are not raising our kids without gender influences altogether, but we are actively trying to create space…

Why I want to read books with protagonists of color to my White son

April 8, 2016 · by Raising Race Conscious Children · in Early Childhood, Elementary School, Race, STRATEGY: AFFIRM CHILDREN'S QUESTIONS, STRATEGY: CHALLENGE STEREOTYPES, STRATEGY: NAME RACE/WHITENESS, STRATEGY: SPEAK TO IMAGES/WORDS, Suzanne Feinspan, Toddlers, White Privilege

by guest blogger Suzanne Feinspan I loved reading as a kid. Weekly trips to the library and monthly ones to the bookstore were some of the highlights of my childhood. I still have a strong sentimental attachment to many of…

How my White family will fight Islamaphobia

February 3, 2016 · by Raising Race Conscious Children · in Babies, Race, STRATEGY: CHALLENGE STEREOTYPES, STRATEGY: CHILDREN AND ACTIVISM, STRATEGY: CONSIDER FEELINGS, STRATEGY: FAIRNESS/UNFAIRNESS, STRATEGY: NAME RACE/WHITENESS, STRATEGY: SPEAK TO IMAGES/WORDS, Toddlers, Uncategorized, White Privilege, Zoë Williams

by guest blogger Zoë Williams This post is part of a week-long series highlighting supporters of Showing Up for Racial Justice (SURJ), both in their parenting of race-conscious children and their activist work for racial justice. SURJ is a national network of…

“Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What (Colors) Do You See?”

January 29, 2016 · by Raising Race Conscious Children · in Babies, Early Childhood, Elementary School, Race, Sachi Feris, STRATEGY: NAME RACE/WHITENESS, STRATEGY: SPEAK TO IMAGES/WORDS, Toddlers, Uncategorized, White Privilege

by Sachi Feris I have been reading the book, “Brown Bear, Brown Bear, what do you see?” by Bill Martin Jr. and Eric Carle for over a decade to my kindergarten Spanish students (“Oso pardo, oso pardo, que ves ahi?”)….

It’s time to make race talk more common and less awkward

January 18, 2016 · by Raising Race Conscious Children · in Babies, Brigitte Vittrup, Ph.D, Early Childhood, Elementary School, Middle Grades, Race, Racial Identity, STRATEGY: AFFIRM CHILDREN'S QUESTIONS, STRATEGY: CHALLENGE STEREOTYPES, STRATEGY: EXPLORE THROUGH PLAY, STRATEGY: NAME RACE/WHITENESS, STRATEGY: SPEAK TO IMAGES/WORDS, Toddlers

by guest blogger Brigitte Vittrup, Ph.D. Back in October I participated in one of the Raising Race Conscious Children webinars, and it was great to see the interest and willingness of parents (and a few teachers) to explore the issue…

Undoing the myth of White=beauty: Reading Snow White to my daughter

“People decide for themselves how they want to identify” or dismantling the gender binary with my children

Staceyann and Zuri Chin’s Living Room Protests: A conversation with Staceyann

SURJ MAY DAY ACTION WITH CHILDREN TOOLKIT

The Third Little Pig: A lesson on wealth redistribution

How (and why) I introduced gender identity to my 3-year-old son

Why I want to read books with protagonists of color to my White son

How my White family will fight Islamaphobia

“Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What (Colors) Do You See?”

It’s time to make race talk more common and less awkward

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