When Michael's Death Means Our Own Children's Death: Critical Race Parenting in a Time of Racial Extermination

• In Event: Assaults on Communities of Color: Transacademic Exploration of the Realities of Race-Based Violence

Abstract

The focus of this paper is relative to the authors’ experiences as academics and parents of color to illustrate how white patriarchal supremacist violence affects children, what emotional struggles they face being parents and race scholars, and what is at risk when we give up on the fight for racial justice. The paper draws from the tradition of critical race theory (CRT) by using two counternarratives to illustrate the pain of dealing with racism with the authors’ own children. Therefore, the presenters shift narrative perspectives accordingly, and from these experiences, seek to introduce components to critical race parenting (CRP) to the discussion of assaults on communities of color.

Authors

• Cheryl E. Matias, University of Colorado - Denver

• Roberto Montoya, University of Colorado - Denver