by ARP Columnist, Karen Walrond
Soon after moving to the United States in 1978 at the age of 11, I got my first real taste of American Halloween. Because I had attended an American school in my homeland of Trinidad, I knew what Halloween was; however, Trinidadians as a rule don’t celebrate Halloween with quite the […]

by Jen Chau and Carmen Van Kerckhove
A brand-new episode of Addicted to Race is out! If you haven’t already, please subscribe to our podcast in iTunes. Click here to launch iTunes and subscribe today, it’s absolutely free.
We hand the reins over to our listeners in this episode - it’s a special all listener feedback […]

by Anti-Racist Parent Columnist Jae Ran Kim
When I think about what it means to me personally to be invited to be a guest blogger on Anti-Racist Parent, it is wholly in contrast to how I was raised in the 1970’s and 1980’s in the Midwest.
I grew up the oldest of three children in a middle […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Before I get started with this post, a few clarifications. First, I don’t think that Madonna is the evil, attention-hungry, Angelina-copycat that others are making her out to be. I’m sure she was guided by the best of intentions when it came to this adoption. But that doesn’t mean she doesn’t buy […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Let the hysteria begin! The media has yet another set of “miracle” twins to obsess over. An Australian black/white mixed woman with a white husband recently gave birth to twins Alicia and Jasmin, girls that The Daily Telegraph refers to as “one black and one white.” The paper also claims that “experts […]

by Jen Chau and Carmen Van Kerckhove
A brand-new episode of Addicted to Race is out! If you haven’t already, please subscribe to our podcast in iTunes. Click here to launch iTunes and subscribe today, it’s absolutely free.
THE DANGERS OF POSITIVE STEREOTYPES
In this episode of Addicted to Race, we share with you the recording of […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
As you might have noticed, this site and basically all our other sites have been down for most of the day. We’re experiencing some problems with our host. Hopefully they’ll be resolved soon, but please bear with us in the meantime. Thanks!

by Jen Chau and Carmen Van Kerckhove
We’re excited to announce the launch of a new blog, Conscious Media Maker! Conscious Media Maker is a blog for entertainment, media, advertising and public relations professionals who are committed to bringing about more realistic, three-dimensional representations of people of color.
The Goal
We’ve been blogging about issues of race and […]

by ARP columnist, Jason Sperber
A recent post on Rice Daddies, the group blog by Asian American dads that I coordinate, incited a lively debate among commenters about whether racially or culturally based Halloween costumes were well-meaning or racist, or worth getting upset about at all.
On the one hand, we could throw up our hands and […]

Inter-race adoptees say worried about Madonna child - NineMSN
Thanks Meg! “People need to understand that the losses for the adoptees are immense and lifelong…The price many of us have paid is a lifelong struggle to gain a sense of belonging, to attain some kind of identity. And that lifelong struggle is tiring..
(tags: transracialadoption internationaladoption […]

by Jen Chau and Carmen Van Kerckhove
Every Friday afternoon we sum up the week’s best posts from New Demographic’s various projects. Here we go!
Race Changers
a community of people working towards an anti-racist future, one week at a time

Assignment 3 - Stereotypes in the Media: Stereotypes are all around us. Grab a friend, a co-worker, or […]

by ARP Columnist, Jason Sperber
If you surf certain corners of the parentblogosphere, chances are you’ve read, or even participated in, some pretty heated discussions about the intersection of race and parenting. Most parentblogs, however, are the creations of individual writers with individual points of view, with debates in the comments forming between readers who agree […]

‘I Am Hip-Hop’ Author Welcomes Children Into Culture - AllHipHop.com
“I would like for children to get that Hip-Hop is not about what [possessions] you have. Life is not what you have. Hip-Hop is about who you are and how you express that notion–your swagger,” Duncan-Smith told AllHipHop.com.
(tags: hiphop books)

Parachute parents - Guardian
Thanks Nina! […]

by ARP Columnist, Karen Walrond
My name is Karen, and I’m from The Republic of Trinidad & Tobago.
You may think the fact that I’m from a small, two-island country at the southernmost part of the Caribbean Sea may seem rather irrelevant in a forum like this one. However, the truth is Trinidad & Tobago boasts one […]

by Jen Chau and Carmen Van Kerckhove
Be sure to tune in TONIGHT for the latest Addicted to Race live call-in show. It’s tonight, October 17 at 10 pm Eastern U.S. time.
We’ll be discussing the dangers of positive stereotypes. Why are we so quick to agree with positive stereotypes about our ethnic or racial group? How […]

by Jen Chau and Carmen Van Kerckhove
A brand-new episode of Addicted to Race is out! If you haven’t already, please subscribe to our podcast in iTunes. Click here to launch iTunes and subscribe today, it’s absolutely free.
RANT
The tendency for people to dress up as folks of other racial and ethnic groups for Halloween is […]

by Jen Chau
I’m sure that as adults, we can all say that there are things we wish our parents knew about us as we were growing up. Perhaps things that would have made things easier? Or things that would have created more understanding between us? (Disclaimer: ”I wish my parents knew…” is going to be a regular column in which […]

Malawi groups to ask court to halt Madonna adoption - Yahoo! News
Thanks Jennifer! “Human rights groups in Malawi will seek a court injunction on Monday to stop pop star Madonna from proceeding with the adoption of a one-year-old boy in the impoverished African nation…”
(tags: celebrities internationaladoption transracialadoption)

Little Rock school board has black majority - MSNBC.com
“For […]

A Notable Chess Journey for Talented New York Girls - New York Times
15 year-old Medina and 12 year-old Darrian. “It will be the first time that two African-American players have represented the United States in an international chess competition. That both are girls makes it that much more remarkable…”
(tags: africanamerican black)

Scores on State Math Tests […]

by ARP Columnist, Jason Sperber
Where I’m Coming From
What does it mean to be an anti-racist parent? Thinking about this question makes me flash back to the diversity trainings I was involved with during college, both as a participant and a facilitator. One of the recurring exercises we did was sort of a personal history inventory, […]