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In Honor of Critical Race Theory and Derrick Bell
July 26, 2021
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Sachi Feris
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The willful misunderstanding and skewing of Critical Race Theory in recent news has saddened and angered me. Without Critical Race Theory, there would be no Raising Race Conscious Children. I was in college when a short story, “The Space Traders,”…
“Why bring it up?” Pushing back against White supremacy
December 23, 2018
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Early Childhood
Elementary School
Gender
Race
Racial Identity
Sachi Feris
STRATEGY: AFFIRM CHILDREN'S QUESTIONS
STRATEGY: CONSIDER FEELINGS
STRATEGY: FAIRNESS/UNFAIRNESS
STRATEGY: NAME RACE/WHITENESS
STRATEGY: SPEAK TO IMAGES/WORDS
Toddlers
White Privilege
by Sachi Feris The other day, my dad was showing my children a video of his wife’s daughter’s circus performance and my three-year-old asked, “Are they girls or boys?” “They look like they’re wearing costumes that ‘girls’ more commonly use…but…
White as “right:” Why I don’t normalize Whiteness with my children
February 13, 2018
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Babies
Early Childhood
Elementary School
Race
Sachi Feris
STRATEGY: CHILDREN AND ACTIVISM
STRATEGY: CONSIDER FEELINGS
STRATEGY: NAME RACE/WHITENESS
STRATEGY: SPEAK TO IMAGES/WORDS
Toddlers
White Privilege
by Sachi Feris Around the corner from my apartment is a coffee shop with a poster-sized photograph of Marilyn Monroe. My two-year-old son and I have made many trips to this coffee shop and he always points out this image…
“Are all Muslims terrorists?”: My child’s Muslim identity
January 25, 2018
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Elementary School
Racial Identity
STRATEGY: NAME RACE/WHITENESS
Valarie Budayr
by guest Blogger Valarie Budayr, co-founder of Multicultural Children’s Book Day “Why isn’t our religion the same as everyone else?” my seven-year-old son Omar asked. “Nathan came up to me and said I was going straight to H-E-double toothpicks, AND…
Halloween as an opportunity to dismantle White supremacy: Three Things We Believe This Halloween
October 27, 2017
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Raising Race Conscious Children
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Elementary School
Lori Taliaferro Riddick
Middle Grades
Sachi Feris
STRATEGY: CHALLENGE STEREOTYPES
STRATEGY: CHILDREN AND ACTIVISM
STRATEGY: NAME RACE/WHITENESS
STRATEGY: SPEAK TO IMAGES/WORDS
by Lori Riddick and Sachi Feris On September 5th, 2017, Raising Race Conscious Children’s Sachi Feris published a post entitled “Moana, Elsa, and Halloween” that generated various questions and comments. Sachi clarified, on the blog’s Facebook feed, that her discussion…
Vegas, Charlottesville, and Remembering Hope
October 13, 2017
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Raising Race Conscious Children
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Elementary School
Martha Haakmat
Middle Grades
Race
Racial Identity
STRATEGY: AFFIRM CHILDREN'S QUESTIONS
STRATEGY: CHALLENGE STEREOTYPES
STRATEGY: CONSIDER FEELINGS
STRATEGY: NAME RACE/WHITENESS
STRATEGY: SPEAK TO IMAGES/WORDS
by guest blogger Martha Haakmat Watching the news about Las Vegas over the last week or so, I remembered spending the final week of summer vacation with family in Maine, watching the news every evening about the terrorism of White…
“I wish I were Black”: Talking about White privilege with my six-year-old
September 15, 2017
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Elementary School
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Middle Grades
STRATEGY: AFFIRM CHILDREN'S QUESTIONS
STRATEGY: CHILDREN AND ACTIVISM
STRATEGY: CONSIDER FEELINGS
STRATEGY: EXPLORE THROUGH PLAY
STRATEGY: NAME RACE/WHITENESS
by guest blogger Ruthie Vincill As a child playing in the ocean, I was taught about the undertow and its power to sneak up on you. As a White child (and beneficiary of White privilege), I was not, however, taught…
Moana, Elsa, and Halloween
September 5, 2017
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Raising Race Conscious Children
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Early Childhood
Elementary School
Middle Grades
Sachi Feris
STRATEGY: CHALLENGE STEREOTYPES
STRATEGY: FAIRNESS/UNFAIRNESS
STRATEGY: NAME RACE/WHITENESS
STRATEGY: SPEAK TO IMAGES/WORDS
by Sachi Feris My five-year-old, who I had successfully shielded from Disney princesses until recently, finally figured out that “Let it go” (which she had been singing with her friends for a over a year), was from the movie “Frozen.”…
What Charlottesville means for our Black family
August 13, 2017
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Raising Race Conscious Children
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Elementary School
Lori Taliaferro Riddick
Middle Grades
Race
STRATEGY: AFFIRM CHILDREN'S QUESTIONS
STRATEGY: CHILDREN AND ACTIVISM
STRATEGY: CONSIDER FEELINGS
STRATEGY: NAME RACE/WHITENESS
STRATEGY: SPEAK TO IMAGES/WORDS
Uncategorized
by Lori Taliaferro Riddick A few weeks ago my family and I visited the National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D. C. As we walked to the museum from our car, my husband warned my children…
The problem with “Crazy” Hair Day
June 8, 2017
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Raising Race Conscious Children
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Early Childhood
Elementary School
Middle Grades
Race
Sara Leo
STRATEGY: CHILDREN AND ACTIVISM
STRATEGY: CONSIDER FEELINGS
STRATEGY: NAME RACE/WHITENESS
STRATEGY: SPEAK TO IMAGES/WORDS
White Privilege
by guest blogger Sara Leo   This post has been edited from its original which generated largely positive feedback from other White people and critical feedback from people of color. I have learned a lot through this process and I believe…
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“Are all Muslims terrorists?”: My child’s Muslim identity
“Brown Bear, Brown Bear, What (Colors) Do You See?”
“But are we Arab?”; Creating meaning of my children’s identities, Part Two
“I wish I were Black”: Talking about White privilege with my six-year-old
“If they’re both straight” and other thoughts
“Now that Biden is President…are there still going to be jails?”
“Who lived here before?”: Brooklyn’s changing skyline
“Why Didn’t Her Real Mom Want Her?”
“Are you a boy or a girl?”: Helping young children think through gender
“Are you speaking Spanish?”; How to ask questions about differences
“Charity” is not enough: Why I want my daughter to be an activist
“I want to be Mexican like Dora!”; Creating meaning of my children’s identities, Part One
“Is that your Mom?”—Children’s questions about families
“Madeline,” race, and the problem with ‘good versus bad’
“Mom, why did God create matching?”
“Momma, why aren’t there more boy teachers?”
“Mommy, Where Is My Daddy?” A children’s book by Tracy L. Gray
“One Hundred Years of Lynching:” Coming to Terms With America’s Violent Past
“People decide for themselves how they want to identify” or dismantling the gender binary with my children
“Slavery was a long time ago;” An awkward moment at the grocery store
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