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smiti_nathan's review against another edition
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
madimae98's review against another edition
5.0
Gave me alot to think about, and it gave me a lot of ways I can change to be more anti-racist. I also feel better equiped to raise my future children to treat others as equals, to be allies and anti-racist.
notesonbookmarks's review against another edition
5.0
I forgot that my copy is signed. And I squealed out loud. So, that should tell you how this went for me.
ela_lee_'s review against another edition
3.0
"Who knows how much potential racism has buried?"
This was a pretty straightforward, entertaining, and “easy” read. It’s a great resource not only for parents, but teachers, community workers, family members, or anyone who wants to learn more about the everyday deep-rooted culprit that is racism. Although some “how to respond to BLANK” situations came up, I imagined this book would be more of a straight forward resource on “how to respond when a child says this,” or “what should you do if your child does this?” Several times, I have witnessed a child unknowingly say something racially inappropriate and it seems most adults never know how act or respond, therefore reacting poorly.
The book discussed a lot of Kendi’s own childhood and his newborn daughter. I think he may have been able to write this book with more examples and details if he waited until his daughter was a toddler or experiencing elementary school. I wish the information was a little more generalized for popular use, but it was a great start to remind us of the ways children, particularly high school children, observe and experience racism.
"To raise an anti-racist child is to discourage tyrannical gains with rulers and servants, good cops and bad robbers, bad people and good people. Which is hard, but it’s vital that we teach our kids, even in play, that there aren’t bad or good people, just people who do bad or good things."
To quote Susan Verde’s picture book, "empathy can be taught in classrooms alongside literacy skills. Problem solving games, storytelling, group discussions, and roleplaying can all teach empathetic skills."
"Racist ideas convince us that people, mainly people of color, are responsible for their own plight and are undeserving of our empathy. Racist ideas as well as classic, homophobic, transphobic, sexist, xenophobic, and ableist ideas are baked into public distinctions of the deserving and undeserving. The idea of who is deserving or undeserving drives support for, or opposition to, government assistance programs."
"We raise a critical thinker in much the same ways we raise an anti-racist: asking - not telling, modeling - not lecturing, radically changing the environment and ourselves. Research suggests that direct teaching of prejudice reduction techniques may be ineffective, where as indirect teachings of the skills and dispositions needed to combat prejudice is affective." -Debbie Walsh, Psychologist
"To be racist is to have misplaced fear. To be racist is to flaunt a huge ego and hide a deep insecurity."
"Some caregivers don’t want their children to be better than them. They want their children to be them, to think just like them. Anything contrary is indoctrination."
"No racial group has more because they are more. No racial group has less because they are less. Imagine if every child learned to see the racial inequity in their community from this anti-racist point of view."
This was a pretty straightforward, entertaining, and “easy” read. It’s a great resource not only for parents, but teachers, community workers, family members, or anyone who wants to learn more about the everyday deep-rooted culprit that is racism. Although some “how to respond to BLANK” situations came up, I imagined this book would be more of a straight forward resource on “how to respond when a child says this,” or “what should you do if your child does this?” Several times, I have witnessed a child unknowingly say something racially inappropriate and it seems most adults never know how act or respond, therefore reacting poorly.
The book discussed a lot of Kendi’s own childhood and his newborn daughter. I think he may have been able to write this book with more examples and details if he waited until his daughter was a toddler or experiencing elementary school. I wish the information was a little more generalized for popular use, but it was a great start to remind us of the ways children, particularly high school children, observe and experience racism.
"To raise an anti-racist child is to discourage tyrannical gains with rulers and servants, good cops and bad robbers, bad people and good people. Which is hard, but it’s vital that we teach our kids, even in play, that there aren’t bad or good people, just people who do bad or good things."
To quote Susan Verde’s picture book, "empathy can be taught in classrooms alongside literacy skills. Problem solving games, storytelling, group discussions, and roleplaying can all teach empathetic skills."
"Racist ideas convince us that people, mainly people of color, are responsible for their own plight and are undeserving of our empathy. Racist ideas as well as classic, homophobic, transphobic, sexist, xenophobic, and ableist ideas are baked into public distinctions of the deserving and undeserving. The idea of who is deserving or undeserving drives support for, or opposition to, government assistance programs."
"We raise a critical thinker in much the same ways we raise an anti-racist: asking - not telling, modeling - not lecturing, radically changing the environment and ourselves. Research suggests that direct teaching of prejudice reduction techniques may be ineffective, where as indirect teachings of the skills and dispositions needed to combat prejudice is affective." -Debbie Walsh, Psychologist
"To be racist is to have misplaced fear. To be racist is to flaunt a huge ego and hide a deep insecurity."
"Some caregivers don’t want their children to be better than them. They want their children to be them, to think just like them. Anything contrary is indoctrination."
"No racial group has more because they are more. No racial group has less because they are less. Imagine if every child learned to see the racial inequity in their community from this anti-racist point of view."
emily_g's review against another edition
challenging
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
4.5
simobae's review against another edition
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
msvenner's review against another edition
4.0
This is an important book, not only for parents but educators and anyone who works with children. That said, I was disappointed to find such an American focus in the book. This is also true of Kendi’s other books. While this is his chosen focus and one that extremely important for his chosen audience, I want to read this material through a Canadian lens. I really want a Canadian academic (or other expert) to do something similar speaking to experience of racism and antiracism in Canada. Our country has a different history with race and racism but that doesn’t make the conversation any less important. Someone please pick up Kendi’s torch here in Canada!