by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Well, the #1 search result is not safe for work, that’s for sure.
So the question is: why are people so fascinated by interracial sex?
Let me tell you a quick story.
I was at a conference a couple of years ago and during one of the breaks, a man came up to me and […]

It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another gratuitous cute kid pic!
Anti-Racist Parent Daniel Brennan sends in this pic of Julia and Ashley a few years back at the Bronx Zoo and writes: “Ashley is a sophomore in college! She is an A student at UIW in San Antonio Texas.”
If you’d like to submit a […]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Dawn Friedman
Before I had my kids I worked for a feminist organization that had the elimination of racism written into their institutional purpose. The YWCA’s mission statement ends with this line:
The YWCA will thrust its collective power toward the elimination of racism, wherever it exists, and by any means necessary.
I worked […]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Vera L
My older son got into trouble again at school the other day. I learned about it from his younger brother, who gleefully greeted me after school with the news. “Mommy, Oliver, got benched today.” He delivered it in classic younger brother fashion, one eye on me looking for a reaction […]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Sue Lyons-Joell
In 1893, Vogue magazine published the Kate Chopin story, “Desiree’s Baby”. The melodramatic tragedy set in antebellum Louisiana involves a foundling mother, her planter husband, and their newborn son. Desiree drowns her child and herself when her planter husband rejects her for having the “taint” of black heritage. The baby […]

It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another gratuitous cute kid pic!
Anti-Racist Parent Amy Fanning writes: “I have been reading the site for a few months, and look forward to every posting. I am a married white mother of a white daughter, and was most recently challenged by your “where are all the white anti-racist […]

by guest contributor Tiffany Pridgen
As a child I was never specifically instructed on race or culture by anyone in my family, and I’m certain that is fairly unusual for someone from a family of color. The truth is, we just weren’t all that interesting as far as culture goes: the term “white bread” comes to […]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Margie Perscheid, originally published at Third Mom
The concept that my children should be grateful to my husband and me for having adopted them has always been offensive to me. And if it’s offensive to me, how much more so must it be to my kids and to other adoptees! The first […]

It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another gratuitous cute kid pic!
Anti-Racist Parent Geraly writes: “My daughter demonstrates “the Asian girl wave” - a phenomena i had never witnessed before and had only heard of after reading Carmen’s post about it on Racialicious. I guess it skipped a generation. :)”
If you’d like to […]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Jason Sperber
My wife and I have been talking and thinking about this for a while. Last December, we heard a heartbreaking episode of This American Life in which a Muslim American family’s American dream dissolves in the face of incessant bullying—by students and a teacher—of their elementary-school-aged daughter. The segment, act […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
A brand-new episode (No. 69) of Addicted to Race is out! Addicted to Race is New Demographic’s weekly podcast about America’s obsession with race.
It’s another all listener feedback episode as we continue our semi-hiatus here at Addicted to Race:

Jason, a new listener, calls in with his thoughts on the show
Liam McGrath encourages […]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Tereza Topferova
Part I: My Many Colored Days
I took my son to a thrift store last month and bought a few toys, including a pink stroller and a black doll, and books. When we got home, I read one of them, My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss, with my son. […]

It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another gratuitous cute kid pic!
Anti-Racist Parent Mama A writes: “This is my daughter Boo.  I believe Emily, whom I blog with, has already sent one of her and her friend Red in before, but I thought I’d add one of my own.”
If you’d like to submit a pic […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
I’m excited to announce that New Demographic’s seminar, Racialicious! When Race and Pop Culture Collide, is now available in both audio seminar and e-book formats!
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From the neo-minstrelsy of Flavor of Love to the racial segregation on Survivor, from the race-swapping families on Black.White. to the fascination with interracial sex, from Gwen Stefani’s […]

by Anti-Racist Parent Columnist Michelle Myers
A month ago, my uncle tried to kill my aunt by shooting her in the head with a shotgun, and then he killed himself with it. It happened the day after I had emailed my last post to Carmen, and she had told me it would go up at the […]

Dear Anti-Racist Parent,
I need help finding out how to battle racist in-laws when we are adopting a child of a different race and I am so flabbergasted by the comments that come from their mouths.
We went to the flea market with them and on the way home we stopped at a buffet, and… his mom […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
A brand-new episode (No. 68) of Addicted to Race is out! Addicted to Race is New Demographic’s weekly podcast about America’s obsession with race.
This is an all listener audio comment episode:

Frances shares her thoughts on the Don Imus controversy
Jeff weighs in on misogyny in hip hop
ME discusses the word “queer”
Tereza responds to […]

by Anti-Racist Parent Columnist Liz Dwyer
Thirty years have passed since the name “Kunta Kinte” was etched into my memory. The miniseries Roots was my first real education about the chattel slavery that held this nation in its grip for so many generations. I vividly remember sitting on the couch in my family’s den, […]

It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another gratuitous cute kid pic!
Anti-Racist Parent Tim Craig writes: “This is my daughter Colleen (picture taken when she was 19 months). She is bi-racial with an American father (of a Scottish and Irish decent) and a Chinese-American mother. Ever since she was born, I have been reading various […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
I’m excited to announce that New Demographic’s seminar, Racialicious! When Race and Pop Culture Collide, is now available in both audio seminar and e-book formats!
DESCRIPTION
From the neo-minstrelsy of Flavor of Love to the racial segregation on Survivor, from the race-swapping families on Black.White. to the fascination with interracial sex, from Gwen Stefani’s […]