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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…

Talking about slavery through a lens of resistance

January 27, 2017 · by Raising Race Conscious Children · in Elementary School, Kesa Kivel, Middle Grades, Race, Racial Identity, STRATEGY: CHALLENGE STEREOTYPES, STRATEGY: CONSIDER FEELINGS, STRATEGY: NAME RACE/WHITENESS, STRATEGY: SPEAK TO IMAGES/WORDS

by guest blogger Kesa Kivel Never Give Up! Ama’s Journey to Freedom on the Underground is a free, coming-of-age historical fiction film set in the 1850s. The film provides excellent, well-researched content on slavery in the United States as well…

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…

Raising children who sparkle: Gender, patriarchy and interrupting Shame

January 13, 2017 · by Raising Race Conscious Children · in Babies, Early Childhood, Elementary School, Gender, Jardana Peacock, STRATEGY: EXPLORE THROUGH PLAY, STRATEGY: SPEAK TO IMAGES/WORDS, Toddlers

by guest blogger Jardana Peacock What if our children were allowed to be who they really are? In Nina Benedetto’s book. About Chris, a children’s book that re-tells the true story of a pre-school transgender boy, Benedetto asks readers to…

The Black Santa Claus at our local pharmacy

December 23, 2016 · by Raising Race Conscious Children · in Babies, Early Childhood, Elementary School, Middle Grades, Sachi Feris, STRATEGY: CHALLENGE STEREOTYPES, STRATEGY: FAIRNESS/UNFAIRNESS, STRATEGY: NAME RACE/WHITENESS, STRATEGY: SPEAK TO IMAGES/WORDS, Toddlers

by Sachi Feris I am Jewish. I did not grow up with a Christmas tree, nor did I have Christmas tree envy, or wish for Santa Claus. Though Chanukah is often considered a “Hallmark holiday,” I have always loved watching…

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,…

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…

“I want to be Mexican like Dora!”; Creating meaning of my children’s identities, Part One

October 21, 2016 · by Raising Race Conscious Children · in Early Childhood, Elementary School, Racial Identity, Sachi Feris, STRATEGY: AFFIRM CHILDREN'S QUESTIONS, STRATEGY: SPEAK TO IMAGES/WORDS

by Sachi Feris Like many children, my daughter’s first introduction to cartoon characters has been through marketing. She first met Dora, for example, on a band aid. A year ago, during a one-month stay in San Cristobal, Chiapas, Mexico, we…

What I tell my son about the sexist media

October 13, 2016 · by Raising Race Conscious Children · in Elementary School, Gender, Janet Alperstein, Middle Grades, STRATEGY: AFFIRM CHILDREN'S QUESTIONS, STRATEGY: CHILDREN AND ACTIVISM, STRATEGY: FAIRNESS/UNFAIRNESS, STRATEGY: SPEAK TO IMAGES/WORDS

by guest blogger Janet Alperstein After attending “Fiddler on the Roof” my eight-year-old Jewish Day School-educated son, made it his business to memorize the verse about the sons in “Tradition:” “At three I started Hebrew school, at ten I learned…

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

Talking about slavery through a lens of resistance

Teaching resistance on the eve of the inauguration

Raising children who sparkle: Gender, patriarchy and interrupting Shame

The Black Santa Claus at our local pharmacy

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

Interrupting White silence with my children

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

“I want to be Mexican like Dora!”; Creating meaning of my children’s identities, Part One

What I tell my son about the sexist media

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