By Asha Jeffers, ARP guest contributor
Editor’s note: In this week’s “Ask Anti-Racist Parent” thread, we’ve been discussing how children of color fare in homogenous environments. Reader, Asha Jeffers, an African-Caribbean-Canadian student, offered this article, originally written for a college magazine, that highlights her experiences as a person of color in a predominantly white institution and […]

What’s on your mind?

It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another gratuitous cute kid pic. Reader Tracy D. says, “My husband’s and my mutual friend was over visiting our house today, and he let my daughter play with his sunglasses and she did this!  Luckily for all of us, he had the camera and was quick to snap […]

by Tami Winfrey Harris, editor
I am a Barack Obama supporter. If you are not, I apologize, but please indulge me for a moment. I am not about to become a political proselytizer. This post isn’t about policies and platforms. I’ll save that stuff for my own blog. But there is one thing that I know […]

Sorry for the late post today, guys. I’ve been at a conference and am just getting access to a computer. Thanks for your patience.
Dear Anti-Racist Parent,
I’m a parent of a young transracially adopted (Asian) child, and we have to decide where to send him to school: whether to stay in our urban area, which is […]

by Tami Winfrey Harris, ARP editor

(Note: In the study discussed below, mixed race = having one black parent and one white parent.)
A recent paper co-authored by Steven D. Levitt asserts:
1) Mixed-race kids grow up in households that are similar along many dimensions to those in which black children grow up: similar incomes, the father is […]

What are you thinking about today?

It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another gratuitous cute kid pic. Reader Erin M. says of her sons: “They are my pride and joy, and I am so thankful for them everyday.  It was difficult to pick just one picture of them together, as I am always whipping out the camera!  Patrick (4) and […]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Margie Perscheid

By now, pretty much everyone knows the story of the Spanish and Argentine teams who thought it might be cute to do a little yellow face for the press. If you haven’t, you can catch up on the whole sordid affair at Angry Asian Man. ARP’s own Carmen Van Kerckhove […]

JamboKids is a new toy company that offers toys, dolls and books based on characters of diverse heritage and background. I’d love to read your reviews of the JamboKids products or the new book by Naomi Hirahara referenced below.
JamboKids was launched in late October 2007 by a husband and wife team who were looking for fun […]

by Tami Winfrey Harris, editor, crossposted from What Tami Said

In its current issue, Greater Good magazine ponders “Are we born racist?” and in the article “Look Twice,” Susan T. Fiske, Ph.D., Eugene Higgins Professor of Psychology at Princeton University, offers some bad news and good news:

Most people think they’re less biased than average. But just as we can’t all be […]

by Tami Winfrey Harris, ARP editor
Over at The Root, Meera Bowman-Johnson has a predictably compelling and thoughtful article, titled “Double Take,” about recent breathless headlines about twins who appear to be members of different races–one black and one white. In the piece, she speaks eloquently about her own beautiful babies:
Aug. 14, 2008–My son, Liam Kojo Johnson, entered the […]

What’s on your mind today?
 
Editor’s Note: I will be away from the computer today and moderation will be slow.

Dear Anti-Racist Parent,
I am Spanish, living in the UK with my white British husband and our two children, a birth son aged 7 and a daughter adopted from China who is now 4.
My question has to do with pre-school. It’s now the school holidays, and the other day, playing in bed with my daughter, she […]

A comment from SF Mom in the previous thread led me to the blog Harlow’s Monkey and the must-read essay, “China Connections: Fearing the Adult Adoptee:”
My first official “job” as an Adoption Poster Child™ occurred when I was 16 years old, in the living room of an adoptive family and fellow church members. That day […]

Pardon me while I rant a bit…
A couple months ago, flush with excitement about my new editing gig at Anti-Racist Parent, I visited the kids section at my local Barnes & Noble store. There is nothing I love more than a new book with crisp pages and an uncracked spine. Sometimes I like the idea of […]

We have millions of children with possibilities,
from the streets of Nairobi
to the hills of Tennessee.
Every hand you touch has a print with a different name.
What makes this world a better place is that we’re not the same.
Celebrate all our differences.
It’s a colorful world, a beautiful world that we live in.
- From the book and CD […]

I’d like to try something new here at ARP–a weekly open thread where readers can discuss issues related to race, identity, parenting, etc.; share great resources, links to articles; indulge in shameless self-promotion; offer ideas and feedback to ARP. So…here it is. Enjoy!

It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another gratuitous kid pic. Reader Jennifer B. says, “Here is my daughter Maya, meeting Barack Obama.  As you can see, she’s quite enamored!  Obama was relaxed and kind, and he remembered her name and said goodbye on the way out of the store (His sister’s name is Maya too). And […]

Dear Anti-Racist Parent:
I am an adoptive mom to two beautiful Haitian boys.  One of them is still in Haiti, waiting to come home.  We have had our other son, Sam, with us for about 4 months.  I want to share with you something that happened to our family a few months ago.  It made me […]