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Why I use the words ’Black’ and ‘White’ versus ‘brown’ and ‘peach’

June 16, 2015 · by Raising Race Conscious Children · in Babies, Early Childhood, Elementary School, Middle Grades, Race, Racial Identity, Sachi Feris, STRATEGY: NAME RACE/WHITENESS, STRATEGY: SPEAK TO IMAGES/WORDS, Toddlers, White Privilege

by Sachi Feris In Raising Race Conscious Children’s interactive workshops, participants practice explicitly naming race. I have gotten a lot of questions about the utility of using the words “Black” and “White” as part of the strategy to name race…

Talking about Black Lives Matter to White Children

June 5, 2015 · by Raising Race Conscious Children · in Amy Dudley, Early Childhood, Elementary School, Middle Grades, Race, Racial Identity, STRATEGY: CHILDREN AND ACTIVISM, STRATEGY: CONSIDER FEELINGS, STRATEGY: FAIRNESS/UNFAIRNESS, STRATEGY: NAME RACE/WHITENESS, Toddlers, White Privilege

by guest blogger Amy Dudley This past Martin Luther King Jr. Day my five-year-old daughter and I attended a day long Freedom Camp organized by some long-time educators, a passionate, intergenerational, multiracial group that included pioneers in anti-bias education, and…

My children’s experiences with internalized racism

May 19, 2015 · by Raising Race Conscious Children · in Ben Wright, Gender, Middle Grades, Race, Racial Identity, STRATEGY: CONSIDER FEELINGS, STRATEGY: NAME RACE/WHITENESS, White Privilege

by guest blogger Ben Wright My children are mixed heritage children—Latina (my partner) and White (me). They have internalized more racism and other oppressions than I would like and it comes out in a variety of ways. My partner and…

Janet Alperstein, Raising Race Conscious Children

My son’s Jewish and Guatemalan identity

April 9, 2015 · by Raising Race Conscious Children · in Early Childhood, Elementary School, Janet Alperstein, Race, Racial Identity, STRATEGY: CHALLENGE STEREOTYPES, STRATEGY: NAME RACE/WHITENESS, Toddlers

Celebrations are a big part of our family: the Jewish holidays, the anniversaries of the day we met and the day we became a family, Guatemalan Independence Day, and National Adoption Day. Each of these celebrations helps us reaffirm our multiple identities.

A Passover story for my three-year-old

April 2, 2015 · by Raising Race Conscious Children · in Early Childhood, Elementary School, Race, Racial Identity, Sachi Feris, STRATEGY: CHILDREN AND ACTIVISM, STRATEGY: FAIRNESS/UNFAIRNESS, STRATEGY: NAME RACE/WHITENESS, Toddlers

There was once a little baby boy named Moses. Moses was Jewish and he lived in Egypt where the king, who was called the Pharaoh, did not like Jewish babies.

Guest Blogger Julie Roberts-Phung writing for Raising Race Conscious Children

My bi-racial son’s racial identity

March 27, 2015 · by Raising Race Conscious Children · in Early Childhood, Elementary School, Julie Roberts-Phung, Race, Racial Identity, STRATEGY: NAME RACE/WHITENESS, Toddlers

by guest blogger Julie Roberts-Phung This post is being re-posted as 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…

Elmo and Whoopi chat about race

March 24, 2015 · by Raising Race Conscious Children · in Early Childhood, Elementary School, Race, Racial Identity, Sachi Feris, STRATEGY: NAME RACE/WHITENESS, Toddlers

by Sachi Feris I have always loved Elmo…. and I have always been a Whoopi Goldberg fan. So, from time to time, I watch Elmo and Whoopi’s exchanges on Sesame Street about their different skin colors and hair/fur. When I first…

My children’s complicated identities as White Hispanics

March 13, 2015 · by Raising Race Conscious Children · in Elementary School, Middle Grades, Myriam Juarbe, Race, Racial Identity, STRATEGY: CHALLENGE STEREOTYPES, STRATEGY: NAME RACE/WHITENESS, White Privilege

by guest blogger Myriam Juarbe I am a Hispanic, White female from San Juan, Puerto Rico, married to my college sweetheart in graduate school. He is also Hispanic and White (but from Spain)—although here in the United States, many people…

Why I use the words ’Black’ and ‘White’ versus ‘brown’ and ‘peach’

Talking about Black Lives Matter to White Children

My children’s experiences with internalized racism

My son’s Jewish and Guatemalan identity

A Passover story for my three-year-old

My bi-racial son’s racial identity

Elmo and Whoopi chat about race

My children’s complicated identities as White Hispanics

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