Critical Race Parenting: Teaching for Our Children's Lives and Humanity

Session Type: Symposium

Abstract

Educating diverse democracies begins at home. In the wake of the Charleston Emmanuel AME killing of nine African American pillars of the community by a young white supremacist, several parenting questions come to mind. As Matias & Montoya (2015) describe, for parents of color, the questions focus more on keeping their children alive in the midst of “racial extermination”. For antiracist white parents, there is also a conversation to be had with their children so that they may also participate in socially just initiatives. This panel will focus on critical race parenting for parents of color and anti-racist white parents, offering both questions and real conversations had with children around race and racism.

Sub Unit

• Division G - Social Context of Education / Division G - Section 2: Education in Mulitcultural Contexts Within and Across Subject Areas

Chair

• Marvin Lynn, Indiana University - South Bend

Papers

• Kid Race Conversations: Maneuvering Whiteness in Critical Race Parenting - Naomi Nishi, University of Colorado - Denver

• Transnational Borderlands Cultural Wealth as Sustainability: Border Transcendence for Youth Counterdeficit Transformation - Elizabeth Silva, University of Utah

• "Are White People Creeps?" and Other Questions I Am Learning to Answer as an Antiracist White Mother - Amanda Parker, University of New Mexico

• Intersectionality, Color Blindness, and Critical Race Parenting - Christin A. DePouw, University of Wisconsin - Green Bay

Discussant

• Cheryl E. Matias, University of Colorado - Denver