by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Did you know that I send out a monthly email newsletter with updates on New Demographic’s many projects? You can check out the latest newsletter here.
Join New Demographic’s mailing list today and receive a free copy of the special report, The 10 Biggest Trends in Race and Pop Culture. To sign up, […]

Not Just Fetishists and Race Traitors:
Challenging the Ways We Look At Interracial Relationships
Date: Saturday, March 31, 2007
Time: 5:00 p.m. Eastern time / 2:00 p.m. Pacific time
Length: 60 minutes
Fee: $19.99 for either the live teleseminar or recording

Even after John and Yoko, and Heidi and Seal, interracial relationships are still considered taboo. Society’s discomfort is especially obvious […]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Mike Lee
My wife and I — we are both in the medical field — never really thought about the “glass ceiling” concept because we often see people of varied ethnicities in high positions in our field. However, my wife’s cousins, who are in the business field, recently reminded us that it […]

It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another gratuitous cute kid pic!
Anti-Racist Parent Nicole, who blogs at Silicon Valley Moms Blog, describes this photo as “New Years love, Keegan loves his brother, Donovan (just turned 3) loves his apple.”
If you’d like to submit a pic to us, please email us at team@antiracistparent.com. Please include a […]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Ji In, originally published at Twice the Rice
Some months ago, I was quoted in a newsletter article about an adult adoptee panel I participated in last summer, regarding the importance of adoptive parents helping transracially adopted children make connections to their heritage and birth culture. I just came across the […]

Not Just Fetishists and Race Traitors:
Challenging the Ways We Look At Interracial Relationships
Date: Saturday, March 31, 2007
Time: 5:00 p.m. Eastern time / 2:00 p.m. Pacific time
Length: 60 minutes
Fee: $19.99 for either the live teleseminar or recording
or
Even after John and Yoko, and Heidi and Seal, interracial relationships are still considered taboo. Society’s discomfort is […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
A brand-new episode (No. 65) of Addicted to Race is out! Addicted to Race is New Demographic’s weekly podcast about America’s obsession with race.
Carmen hosts a roundtable discussion on white people and hip hop with Jason Tanz and Harry Allen. Jason is the author of Other People’s Property: A Shadow History of […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Here’s a real-life Choose Your Own Adventure experience.
You and your child are standing in the checkout line at the supermarket, when all of a sudden you encounter…
a) The Interrogator
“Is that your child? Is she adopted? Where did you get her from?”
b) The Superficialist
“He’s so exotic! I’ve always thought that black/Asian/biracial/Latino children were […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
If you follow geek news at all, you’ll probably have heard by now of Twitter.
What is it? Well, depends whom you ask.
Mitch Joel calls it permission-based stalking. Rafe Needleman describes it like this: “Twitter is an online service that enables you to broadcast short messages to your friends or “followers.” It also […]

by Anti-Racist Parent Columnist Jae Ran Kim, originally published at Harlow’s Monkey

It’s a precarious position for anyone who tries to be an agent of change within any institution. It can be difficult to balance the needs between individual people and systems that were created to help and instead have become so bureaucratic that it is […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Anti-Racist Parent columnist Jae Ran Kim was recently interviewed on the show Asia Pacific Forum on New York’s WBAI 99.5 FM. From their web site:
Blogging Transracial Adoption
What is the connection between experiments conducted by psychologist Harry Harlow on monkeys and attachment in the 1950s and the contemporary experience of transracial adoption? […]

It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another gratuitous cute kid pic!
Anti-Racist Parent Emily sent in this pic of her daughter “Red,” with her buddy “Boo.” Emily and Andy, Boo’s mom, blog together at Red, W[h]ine and Boo!
If you’d like to submit a pic to us, please email us at team@antiracistparent.com. Please include a caption […]

Not Just Fetishists and Race Traitors:
Challenging the Ways We Look At Interracial Relationships
Date: Saturday, March 31, 2007
Time: 5:00 p.m. Eastern time / 2:00 p.m. Pacific time
Length: 60 minutes
Fee: $19.99 for either the live teleseminar or recording
or
Even after John and Yoko, and Heidi and Seal, interracial relationships are still considered taboo. Society’s discomfort is […]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Meera Bowman Johnson, originally published at Our Kind of Parenting
“That’s it Mommy, I want that one!” My three-year-old flung her arm towards a wall of shiny, sherbet-colored princess costumes.
“I thought you wanted to be a duck.”
“I changed my mind. I wanna be Cinderella for Halloween. See it, Mommy? Right there!”
I […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
A brand-new episode (No. 64) of Addicted to Race is out! Addicted to Race is New Demographic’s weekly podcast about America’s obsession with race.
Carmen is joined by guest co-host L’Heureux Lewis, who is also known as Dumi. Dumi is completing his PhD in Sociology and Public Policy at the University of Michigan. […]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Jason Sperber, originally published at Rice Daddies
I’ve been reading a bunch of posts lately, by hapa parents and/or parents of hapas, about that periennial old miscegenated bugaboo [no, not the stroller, look it up], the “why don’t I/how can they/who’s keeping me from fit(ting) into the group(s) I/they claim as my/their […]

by Anti-Racist Parent guest contributor Vera L
This past Martin Luther King Day, my partner and I took our two boys to San Francisco’s Museum of the African Diaspora. We looked at photographs and charts detailing how the foods of Africa had migrated to cultures across the world. The boys played with an interactive exhibit about […]

It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another gratuitous cute kid pic!
Anti-Racist Parent Joan writes:
“My son, Solomon (who was born in Ethiopia), had a great time outside this fall as we raked leaves and played peek-a-boo around a tree.”
If you’d like to submit a pic to us, please email us at team@antiracistparent.com. Please include a […]

Dear Anti-Racist Parent,
I was relieved to see your website. Thank you for being here!
I am a “white” woman married to a “black” man. I am 30 weeks pregnant with our first child, my second (I have a “white” child from a previous marriage) who is now 6. I stayed in the town we live […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
A brand-new episode (No. 63) of Addicted to Race is out! Addicted to Race is New Demographic’s weekly podcast about America’s obsession with race.
Carmen is joined by guest co-host Hadji Williams in this episode. Hadji Williams has spent over 15 years in the advertising and marketing worlds at […]