by Carmen Van Kerckhove
Awhile back, Jason Sperber from Rice Daddies (and Anti-Racist Parent columnist!) and Eliaday from Kimchi Mamas started an APA Parenting Meme.
I thought it might be fun to riff on that and adapt it for Anti-Racist Parent readers and columnists.
So here are my answers to the questions below. Please post yours in the […]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Dawn Friedman
By now you may have read the article about Tintin in the Congo – the racist children’s book that’s being shelved in the (adult) graphic novel section after a lawyer registered a complaint saying, “I was utterly astonished and aghast to see page after page of representations of black African […]

It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another gratuitous cute kid pic!
Anti-Racist Parent Dawn writes: “Our 3 year old insists on cooking (with supervision of course) but the sunglasses are a bit much.”
If you’d like to submit a pic to us, please email us at team@antiracistparent.com. Please include a caption we can use, and let […]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Natasha Sky
I recently met someone friends have been trying to hook me up with for weeks; her family is planning to adopt. She had heard about me, and I must admit I was excited to talk to her–another multiracial family in our community! (I should know better by now.) I asked […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
A brand-new episode (No. 76) of Addicted to Race is out! Addicted to Race is New Demographic’s weekly podcast about America’s obsession with race.
Carmen and Manish Viij discuss the way 7-Eleven is turning some of its stores into real-life Kwik-E Marts to promote the new Simpsons movie. In order to do this, […]

by Anti-Racist Parent Columnist Jae Ran Kim, originally published at Harlow’s Monkey
. . . I will be on a plane to South Korea. I am embarking on my third trip to Korea since 2000 (also the third trip to my birth country since I was adopted) - interestingly, I will arrive in Seoul on the […]

by guest contributor Nobody, originally published at Scraps by Nobody
There once was a little white Baptist church, set on a plot of farmland that the pastor liked to call “sacred acre”. It was a small congregation, firmly mired in the year 1950, dearly loved by their elderly pastor. One Sunday in June, they observed the […]

It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another gratuitous cute kid pic!
Anti-Racist Parent Sarah writes: “Elyse Rebekah (2.5 years), my love, my joy. Our appreciation for your blog is more than can be expressed!”
If you’d like to submit a pic to us, please email us at team@antiracistparent.com. Please include a caption we can use, and […]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Cloudscome
I have been trying to write a post about how we come to know white privilege. In particular I am wondering how to talk to other white people about it when they say things like “I don’t believe in white privilege.” I am really stuck on how to unpack that statement […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
A brand-new episode (No. 75) of Addicted to Race is out! Addicted to Race is New Demographic’s weekly podcast about America’s obsession with race.
Carmen interviews Laura Martinez about multicultural marketing and the ways in which it can reinforce essentialist notions about racial or ethnic groups. This episode features the song “Something Different” […]

Dear Anti-Racist Parent,
Given the recent post about living in a nearly-all white school district, and the last post about the mom who’s moving from NY to Houston, could you put out a call for ideas on how to naturally mix-it-up culturally when you’re living somewhere that’s mostly white?
And by “mostly white”, I mean I’ve gone […]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Mike Lee
My wife and I recently had a beautiful baby boy 3 months ago, and sometimes talk about how to raise him with a strong sense of his Korean-American identity. My wife and I are both Korean-American and were essentially born and raised here— she born in the U.S., and I […]

It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another gratuitous cute kid pic!
Anti-Racist Parent Denise Fitzsimmons writes: “My son, who I want to grow up feeling as beautful, strong and proud as I see him in this picture. ”
If you’d like to submit a pic to us, please email us at team@antiracistparent.com. Please include a caption […]

by Helena Holgersson-Shorter, originally published in The Motherhood Magazine
[Note from Carmen: Maplewood, NJ is known in the NYC area as a very diverse community. However, I felt that the themes discussed in this article are applicable to other communities as well.]
Diversity. Community. These are the definitive Maplewood buzzwords, the ones our already-settled-in-the-suburbs neighbors used […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
A brand-new episode (No. 74) 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 Kai Chang in this episode. Kai is a technology entrepreneur and progressive activist living and working in southwestern Connecticut and New York City. […]

Dear Anti-Racist Parent,
I appreciate the content on your blog. I have read some very interesting and touching things here.
My sister is considering moving to the south. She is a single mother of two mixed-race boys - 1/2 African American - 1/2 Caucasian.
I am starting to worry that they boys may be met with more resistance […]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Tiffany Pridgen
Coming from a very conservative small town, breastfeeding was a topic that was never discussed outside the home and certainly not practiced in public. For context, in the same small town if you were to take your birth control prescription to the pharmacy to be refilled, the clerk would […]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Vera L
I took my seven year old to the skate park after school one afternoon while his brother was at baseball practice. The popular Berkeley skateboard park is settled on the edge of a large soccer field, a field big enough that a couple of kids’ teams can use it at […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
A brand-new episode (No. 73) of Addicted to Race is out! Addicted to Race is New Demographic’s weekly podcast about America’s obsession with race.
Carmen and Jae Ran discuss celebrity adoptions and the book Outsiders Within: Writing on Transracial Adoption. This episode features the song “Spit It Clearly” by Dilated Peoples, courtesy of […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
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