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Parenting for Liberation: Interrupting the school-to-prison pipeline

February 10, 2017 · by Raising Race Conscious Children · in Elementary School, STRATEGY: AFFIRM CHILDREN'S QUESTIONS, STRATEGY: CONSIDER FEELINGS, STRATEGY: SPEAK TO IMAGES/WORDS, Trina Greene Brown, Uncategorized

by guest blogger Trina Greene Brown Yesterday, I went through my second-grader’s folder to review his homework and sign my initials on his daily agenda. In his folder, I was shocked to find a form with a personal note written…

“Slavery was a long time ago;” An awkward moment at the grocery store

January 27, 2017 · by Raising Race Conscious Children · in Early Childhood, Elementary School, Sara Leo, STRATEGY: ACKNOWLEDGE PUBLIC VERSUS PRIVATE SPACES, STRATEGY: AFFIRM CHILDREN'S QUESTIONS, STRATEGY: CHILDREN AND ACTIVISM, STRATEGY: CONSIDER FEELINGS, STRATEGY: NAME RACE/WHITENESS

by guest blogger Sara Leo My daughter turned four a few months ago and we have recently begun talking about this country’s racial history in more specific terms. We have been using the book “Heart and Soul: The Story of…

Teaching resistance on the eve of the inauguration

January 19, 2017 · by Raising Race Conscious Children · in Elementary School, Lori Taliaferro Riddick, Race, Racial Identity, STRATEGY: AFFIRM CHILDREN'S QUESTIONS, STRATEGY: CHALLENGE STEREOTYPES, STRATEGY: CHILDREN AND ACTIVISM, STRATEGY: CONSIDER FEELINGS, STRATEGY: NAME RACE/WHITENESS, STRATEGY: PARE DOWN THE VARIOUS ISSUES, STRATEGY: SPEAK TO IMAGES/WORDS

by Lori Taliaferro Riddick The day after the election, my seven-year-old told his class that we were moving out of the country. Now, on the eve of the inauguration, he continues to have a lot of fear and anxiety about…

Sharing the Injustice Boycott and Daily Action with my daughter in 2017

January 6, 2017 · by Raising Race Conscious Children · in Early Childhood, Elementary School, Sachi Feris, STRATEGY: AFFIRM CHILDREN'S QUESTIONS, STRATEGY: CHILDREN AND ACTIVISM, STRATEGY: FAIRNESS/UNFAIRNESS

by Sachi Feris Since the conversation with my daughter the day after the election, I have found inspiration as an individual and as a parent by participating in the Injustice Boycott and Daily Action. Injustice Boycott describes itself as “relentless, principled, organized…

White bias and dolls: Helping children create meaning around race and gender

December 14, 2016 · by Raising Race Conscious Children · in Babies, 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 once told me the following story: She and her daughter, a blonde-haired, White, three-year-old, were surveying her large collection of dolls. “All of the dolls are blonde,” her daughter observed. “It’s true,” my friend affirmed,…

“Why are all the White dolls sitting together on the Target shelf?

December 13, 2016 · by Raising Race Conscious Children · in Early Childhood, Elementary School, Melissa Giraurd, Race, Racial Identity, STRATEGY: AFFIRM CHILDREN'S QUESTIONS, STRATEGY: CHALLENGE STEREOTYPES, STRATEGY: CHILDREN AND ACTIVISM, STRATEGY: FAIRNESS/UNFAIRNESS, STRATEGY: NAME RACE/WHITENESS, Toddlers, White Privilege

Supporting kids to push back against racial injustice by guest blogger Melissa Giraud “I guess they only like White people,” my five-year old said the first time she noticed the Our Generation doll section at Target. Screeeech! I stopped our…

Stop profiling Muslims: How you can take action with your children

December 4, 2016 · by Raising Race Conscious Children · in Alissa Wise, Early Childhood, Elementary School, STRATEGY: AFFIRM CHILDREN'S QUESTIONS, STRATEGY: CHILDREN AND ACTIVISM, STRATEGY: NAME RACE/WHITENESS

by guest blogger Alissa Wise As a White, Jewish family, we are inspired by the Jewish tradition to mark your doorposts with a mezuzah (a piece of parchment containing verses of Torah in a decorative case) by marking our home…

Interrupting White silence with my children

November 23, 2016 · by Raising Race Conscious Children · in Early Childhood, Elementary School, Race, Sachi Feris, STRATEGY: AFFIRM CHILDREN'S QUESTIONS, STRATEGY: CHILDREN AND ACTIVISM, STRATEGY: CONSIDER FEELINGS, STRATEGY: NAME RACE/WHITENESS, STRATEGY: SPEAK TO IMAGES/WORDS, White Privilege

by Sachi Feris On Wednesday, November 9th, the day after Election Day, I picked up my four-and-a-half-year-old daughter from school with my fourteen-month-old in the baby carrier and told her that we were headed to Manhattan to a protest Trump’s…

The curriculum I created for my children: Combating “Why is the bad guy brown?”

November 4, 2016 · by Raising Race Conscious Children · in Babies, Early Childhood, Elementary School, Martha Haakmat, Middle Grades, Race, Racial Identity, STRATEGY: AFFIRM CHILDREN'S QUESTIONS, STRATEGY: CHALLENGE STEREOTYPES, STRATEGY: NAME RACE/WHITENESS, STRATEGY: SPEAK TO IMAGES/WORDS, Toddlers

by guest blogger Martha Haakmat My teenage daughters now tease me about the number of times the words “diversity” and “race” came up at our dinner table as they grew up in our family. My middle daughter does an imitation…

“But are we Arab?”; Creating meaning of my children’s identities, Part Two

October 29, 2016 · by Raising Race Conscious Children · in Early Childhood, Elementary School, GUEST BLOGGERS, Racial Identity, Sachi Feris, STRATEGY: AFFIRM CHILDREN'S QUESTIONS, STRATEGY: CONSIDER FEELINGS, STRATEGY: NAME RACE/WHITENESS, White Privilege

by Sachi Feris To read Part One of this post, click here. When I was little, I always claimed, somewhat proudly, that I was “a quarter Lebanese” and that “my dad was born in Cuba” perhaps because it made me different….

Parenting for Liberation: Interrupting the school-to-prison pipeline

“Slavery was a long time ago;” An awkward moment at the grocery store

Teaching resistance on the eve of the inauguration

Sharing the Injustice Boycott and Daily Action with my daughter in 2017

White bias and dolls: Helping children create meaning around race and gender

“Why are all the White dolls sitting together on the Target shelf?

Stop profiling Muslims: How you can take action with your children

Interrupting White silence with my children

The curriculum I created for my children: Combating “Why is the bad guy brown?”

“But are we Arab?”; Creating meaning of my children’s identities, Part Two

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