It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another gratuitous cute kid pic. Reader Jeremy S. wants the world to see his handsome son Liko.
 
 
 

Dear Anti-Racist Parent:
I’m a Scandinavian woman married to an East African man and now we’re expecting our little baby girl within a month from now or so… My question is the following:
Admittedly, I haven’t read much on your Web site yet so forgive me my ignorance if this is completely wrong but we both hate the […]

Houston-area school bars boy for adhering to Native American cultural practice:

FORT BEND COUNTY (KTRK) — The parents of a kindergartener in Fort Bend County are fighting for his right to have long hair in school. They say it’s about freedom of religion. The Needville Independent School District says it needs proof.
When Adriel Arocha, 5, was born, […]

Crossposted from Mixed Race America
Today at Staples I was waiting to make 5 photocopies at the single copier that was working. An elderly gentleman (probably in his 70s) was photocopying what looked to be (and turned out to be) his legal life documents. He was affable enough–even offered to interrupt his copies to let me […]

It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another gratuitous cute kid pic. Our reader, Christine, shares this photo of her oldest son Nate with youngest son Elias in Ethiopia.  ”Two beautiful boys just hanging out!”

Dear Anti-Racist Parent:
Over the past seven or eight years, I’ve been on a journey to relearn history – you know, leaving behind the history I was taught and trying to grasp the real truth of the events that have shaped our nation’s history. At the same time, I have three elementary-age children. They attend a very diverse school […]

The meritocracy and race: Michelle Obama’s much-discussed thesis laid bare the experiences that many young, black adults–many people of color period–have at predominantly white universities. In yesterday’s Washington Post, Theola Labbé-DeBose explored how her later experience in college in many ways mirrored Michelle Obama’s, and how education may not be “the great American equalizer.”
I last […]

LINK FIXED!!! Sorry ya’ll.
by ARP editor Tami Winfrey Harris
I have been reading Howard Zinn’s People’s History of the United States: 1492 to Present. For its unflinching view of our country’s origins, it triumphs and its sins, this book, along with James Loewen’s Lies My Teacher Told Me ought to be required reading for every citizen of […]

Reader Graig M. needs your help. He writes:
I’m a daily reader of Anti-Racist parent, but I only occasionally post.
I work in education, and recently a friend of mine started writing a book for educators on how to teach multi-racial children. As the adoptive parent of a multi-racial daughter, she asked me to write about my experiences for […]

It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another gratuitous cute kid pic. Reader Kary W. says of this beautiful little one: “This is a photo of our adopted daughter, Tasha. She’s almost 2 now. I’m a photographer and have been challenged when it comes to taking pictures of her – she always makes the most […]

by guest contributor Shannon LC Cate, crossposted from Peter’s Cross Station
After the Donaldson Institute’s report on MEPA came out, I was asked (even more than usual) “well, then, what should prospective (or current) transracial adopters do to learn how to parent their kids to honor the importance of race in their lives?”
Here’s my answer: You […]

Find the mochi on aisle 3: Over at Kimchi Mamas, Carol writes about non-Korean families who stumble upon the delights of Super H-Mart.
When I shop at my friendly local Super H-Mart, as is my wont on lazy Sunday afternoons, I always notice the non-Asian patrons. Not all, but the ones that sloooowly wander the aisles […]

Dear Anti-Racist Parent,
My four-year-old daughter was humming “Brown Girl in the Ring” this morning… catchy song. I wasn’t thinking much about it at first, and then the words started to sink through my skull:
Brown girl in the ring
Show me your motion
She looks like a sugar and a plum.
I don’t know what to think about this. […]

“It’s okay to be a different color.”
“It’s okay to dance by yourself.”
“It’s okay to wear glasses.”
“It’s okay to have a pet worm.”
“It’s okay to be different!”
So says author/illustrator Todd Parr’s whimsical book “It’s Okay to be Different” (Little Brown) that celebrates diversity in all its forms. Perfect for children in pre-school to grade 2, this […]

It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another gratuitous kid pic. Reader Lea’s bunch bond at the bottom of a slide at the playground.

Dear Anti-Racist Parent,
I’m writing to ask for any insight or similar experience or simply your perspectives.
This last weekend, we were reading bell hooks’ Homemade Love, and my nearly four-year-old daughter remarked that she wanted to look like Girlpie, and she wanted me to look like Girlpie’s mama and her papa to look like Girlpie’s papa. […]

by Carmen Van Kerckhove
You don’t use racial slurs. You teach your child to treat everyone equally. You expose your family to diverse cultures.
That’s enough to make sure your children don’t grow up to be racists, right?
Not necessarily.
If you want to learn how to incorporate anti-racism into your parenting, join our free teleseminar happening next Wednesday, […]

Get in your box: In The Seattle Times, a bi-racial writer discusses how the 2008 presidential election, featuring a bi-racial candidate, has reawakened her own questions about race and where she fits. (Editor’s note: It annoys me a bit when writers like this one balk at Barack Obama being identified as a black man. It is […]

I loved Liza’s post last Wednesday about her daughter’s hair.
Some of you who know me from other blogs and spaces know that hair–that is the celebration of curly, untameable, big hair–is part of my personal anti-racist crusade. I want girls and women whose ancestry gives them curly hair, coarse hair, kinky hair and nappy hair to love their tresses (not just learn […]

It’s Thursday, which means it’s time for another gratuitous kis pic. Here, reader Gina S. shows off her beautiful brood.