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 […]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Margie Perscheid, originally published at Third Mom
I have a little pendant that I’ve worn for many years. It’s tiny thing, a little gold filigree oval with the word 어머니, omoni, which is Korean for mother, in the center. I don’t remember where I bought it, from an online store I think. […]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Margie Perscheid, originally published at Third Mom
My oldest child went away to college in the fall. It’s a huge milestone, but he’s breezing through it with barely an emotional ripple. Not so his mom.
I’m finding quite hard, actually to think back on the days when he was little […]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Margie Perscheid, originally published at Third Mom
I’m so very tired of people who think the right response to anyone they disagree with is leave.
Someone said that to me in an online discussion this week, as a way of voicing their disagreement with my political point of view. The fact […]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Margie Perscheid, originally published at Third Mom
My approach was to keep it simple – both because as a former teacher I knew that my children’s teachers would have limited time to spend reading the packet, but also (truth be told) because I didn’t get my best ideas until the kids were […]

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 […]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Margie Perscheid, originally published at Third Mom

I’m sure I’m not the only adoptive parent of Asian children who is struggling to help their kids understand the Virginia Tech tragedy. Tech draws many students from the northern Virginia area (where I live), so Monday’s events hit very close to home. My children […]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Margie Perscheid

Whenever I see a white couple with an Asian or Hispanic child, I can’t help wondering whether adoption — like the personal ads — is one of the last areas of American life where naked expressions of racial preference are acceptable.

In Why Doesn’t White Adopt Black? , an op ed that ran in the Washington Post on December 24th, David Nicholson explored the racial dynamics of transracial and intercountry adoption. Although Nicholson’s question seems simple enough, getting my head around the answer was rather like trying to follow the surface of a Möbius strip, where you always end up on the other side of where you started.

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Margie Perscheid
My first reaction, upon receiving an invitation to contribute to Anti-Racist Parent, was to ask who would want to listen to a middle-aged white woman talk about race. What could I possibly add to this dialog?I grew up in the Cleveland, Ohio suburbs. The neighborhoods I lived in were white. […]