As mothers, we have an important impact on shaping our children’s beliefs, preferences, and ideas. That means how we feel about others is often absorbed by them. Most of us have an implicit bias that we don’t even recognize. This is the first part of a two-part interview with Rosemay Webster discussing how we can raise anti-racist kids. The first essential part of raising anti-racist kids is becoming anti-racist yourself. In this episode, we will break down the difference between racism and discrimination. We’ll discuss microaggressions and implicit bias. We’ll discuss privilege; what it is and how to spend it. In the next interview, we will build on these principles and discuss how to apply them to mothering and raising anti-racist children.
Resources Mentioned in the Show
Podcast: Real Talk/Almost Docs
https://www.instagram.com/realtalkalmostdocs/
Implicit Bias Test
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html
Mounk, Yascha. (2022) “Yascha Mounk on the Future of Diverse Democracies”. The Lawfare Podcast. https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/yascha-mounk-on-the-future-of-diverse-democracies/id498897343?i=1000558014962
DiAngelo, R. (2011). White Fragility. International Journal of Critical Pedagogy, 3(3), 54-70.
Kendi, Ibram X. How to Be an Antiracist. New York, NY: One World, 2019
Munger, K. Tweetment Effects on the Tweeted: Experimentally Reducing Racist Harassment. Polit Behav 39, 629–649 (2017).
The First Name Basis Podcast with Jasmine Bradshaw
https://firstnamebasis.libsyn.com/anti-racism-where-do-i-start
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