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4.58 AVERAGE
4.58 AVERAGE
I really liked all the critical thinking questions and exercises. It was written for a pretty broad range — I’ll have to read it again and again as my child gets older. It also read more like a textbook or reference book.
Useful book with good resources with two caveats: 1. I felt like this was geared toward parents with younger children and 2. I didn't love the tone of the writing. I'm probably closer to 3 stars but see the value in the book for the right audience.
Britt Hawthorne shares in the conclusion, "It's our hope that folks invest the same energy they use for learning about the past toward changing the future for the better." This hope is so evident within the book. It is not just abstract ideas that keep us spinning in the "I'm learning" stage, but one filled with action towards justice. I have in my hands concrete conversation starters, reflections, and explorations to take part in with my parenting partner, community, and with my child. It encourages a daily practice and way of navigating the world for change. This is an incredible resource for all caregivers/adults interacting with children. Consider supporting Britt Hawthorne, Natasha Yglesias, and the additional contributing authors by purchasing this one to refer to over and over again.
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To raise anti-racist children, you need to have an understanding of racist practices engrained into daily life. Even though this book was full of practical parenting advice, I found it to be one of the best guides to rethinking my role in disseminating racism. I think this book provides real tangible actions. Highly recommend even if you are not raising a child. I hope to be a better parent because of reading this book. It took me a long time to finish because it had heavy topics and it did make me sad but also very hopeful that change is possible. Solutions can be found.
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This book is an accessible guide to raising your children to be antiracist- to actively acknowledge the racism and prejudice that they will see and combat it. I thought this was a great guide that starts at the basics and works its way through several different topics, like dress codes, food equality, and policing. I loved that it had questions to ask yourself and your kids as well as activities. It offered a wide variety of activities/questions and what age groups you could do them with.
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It's preemptive to read this while pregnant, but I figure I should be pivoting from pregnancy books to parenting ones by this point! The subtitle fits: this really is a practical guide with exercises for both parenting partners and children, as well as ways to frame conversations (with helpful notes about age, or if some activities are more focused for white families versus people of the global majority (on that note, I really like the term "people of the global majority" because it's more accurate, tbh)).
While this contains contemporary examples from the 2020s (references to recent police brutality cases and the anti-Chinese xenophobia from the COVID-19 pandemic), overall I found suggestions to be helpful in cultivating a curious, exploratory mindset for asking ourselves and our children why and how things are, and what can be done to make equitable space for ourselves and our communities. Unlearning societal frameworks is hard work, and while I'd like some people in my periphery to read this, it'll probably fall on me to do the intellectual labor of going through these exercises the next time we have a situation (because that's a when, not an if). The book is broader than antiracism by including antibias work; Britt Hawthorne and collaborators explicitly include gender identity and disability as communities to consider when talking to your child about how our world frames access and prioritizes voices.
Strongly recommended for caregivers looking to instill a sense of care into their dependents as well as to learn how to be a co-conspirator for vulnerable communities.
While this contains contemporary examples from the 2020s (references to recent police brutality cases and the anti-Chinese xenophobia from the COVID-19 pandemic), overall I found suggestions to be helpful in cultivating a curious, exploratory mindset for asking ourselves and our children why and how things are, and what can be done to make equitable space for ourselves and our communities. Unlearning societal frameworks is hard work, and while I'd like some people in my periphery to read this, it'll probably fall on me to do the intellectual labor of going through these exercises the next time we have a situation (because that's a when, not an if). The book is broader than antiracism by including antibias work; Britt Hawthorne and collaborators explicitly include gender identity and disability as communities to consider when talking to your child about how our world frames access and prioritizes voices.
Strongly recommended for caregivers looking to instill a sense of care into their dependents as well as to learn how to be a co-conspirator for vulnerable communities.
challenging
informative
reflective
slow-paced
I appreciated the worksheets & conversation starters as ways to begin & continue thinking about antiracist work with my family.