Raising Antiracist Kids - Softcover

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Parents, caregivers and educators know thathaving conversations with kids about race and racismare important, but they often don’t know when and how to have them.

YOU ARE NOT ALONE

Raising Antiracist Kids by Nicole Lee is meant to help adultsconfront discomfort and misconceptions about antiracism so they can buildantiracist spaces with the important young people in their lives.

Raising Antiracist Kids explores:

• How early kids are developmentally ready to talk about race
• How to actually have those conversations
• Common mistakes adults make when having these conversations
• Ways to model anti-racism in your life, because kids learn betterwhen they see it than when they hear it
• Why it’s okay for your kids to know that you are learning rightalongside them. Hint: It’s not a problem is you don’t have all the answers!

Platitudes about how kids “don’t see race” and how we need to “treat everyoneequally” are rooted in our discomfort and disproven by evidence.

In Raising Antiracist Kids, Nicole Lee pushes past the common reasonspeople give for not discussing antiracism with the children in their lives, andprovides age-appropriate guidance and practical advice on how to put goodintentions into action.

THE IMPACT OF AVOIDANCE IS CLEAR

As with any important topic, our children need and deserve our support inunderstanding how to be anti-racist. They need to hear it and see it modeled inour lives.

A nuanced understanding of race and racism is necessary for our children’shealthy social and emotional development. Awareness of race prepares them tothink realistically and critically, to gain self-awareness and to bondappropriately with peers.

AWARENESS IS PART OF PREPARATION

Many white parents didn’t get explicit messages about navigating race insociety and were taught to be “colorblind” or that conversations about racewere impolite. These same parents feel a lot of shame and embarrassment aboutnot being able to have these conversations with their own children.

White children who are not prepared will encounter the same failure, shame,and grief we see in adults who are the unconscious and conscious purveyors ofracist beliefs and actions today.

INTENTIONAL CONVERSATIONS ABOUT RACE & PARENTING

In conversations with parents all over the US and Canada, white parentsreported these concerns:

• Their parents never spoke to them about race
• Their parents didn’t know what to say
• The subject matter was considered too complicated for adults, so how couldchildren understand?
• Parents wanted to preserve the “innocence” of childhood
• Both parents did not agree on the necessity of discussions or how toapproach conversations about race
• Parents believed that they lived in a diverse environment, so theirchildren would naturally not be racist

Because we have not seen these conversations modeled for us, there is aperpetual cycle of avoidance that spans generations.

We can change this cycle.

Grab your copy of Raising Antiracist Kids and get started.

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