Talk to Your Kids (and Other Parents) About Racism
Raising resilient, anti-racist children means having conversations about racial injustice.
Looking to raise children with the knowledge and skills they need to show up for social justice? A new book gathers the experience of diverse families into a thoughtful, collaborative, and heart-centered parenting guide with a difference. Parenting for Social Justice: Tips, Tools, and Inspiration for Conversations and Action with Kids weaves context, comics, personal stories, and how-tos for ages 0-10 in chapters on race, class, gender, disability, and collective liberation.
“Beloved community is formed not by the eradication of difference but by its affirmation, by each of us claiming the identities and cultural legacies that shape who we are and how we live in the world. …We deepen those bondings by connecting them with an anti-racist struggle.” bell hooks, from
is an educator and mom to two children under the age of 6. As an Afro-Latina in an interracial marriage, Chrissy is keenly aware of her family’s intersecting identities and
By Pooja Makhijani | Jan 08, 2021
What was once considered the archetypical American household a mom and dad of the same racial or ethnic background and in their first marriage, providing care and stability for their 2.2 offspring is now far from the norm. Life choices that decades ago would have been scandalous or illegal, such as divorce, or interracial or same-sex marriage, are now more acceptable and also protected by law. Women, queer people, and others with marginalized identities, especially, have benefitted from these shifts. This is all to say: as family structures have changed, so too has parenting, and so have books for caregivers and about caregiving.