As expat moms, we are in a unique position to live all over the world in the midst of other cultures. This comes with some amazing benefits of exposure and significant relationships with people of many cultures and colors—this is one of the research-supported ways to promote anti-racism. If we have close personal relationships with people who are different from us we can lose our inaccurate bias’. However, being an expat and living in another culture also introduces new bias'. Expat children have difficult experiences abroad that can cause bias’ in a very real and personal way. Without deliberate mothering, these experiences can cause our children to associate an entire culture with a bad experience they had.
We need mothers who are actively training the minds of their children to be anti-racist so we can build a more fair society and we can all enjoy and learn from the diversity of each other. I hope this podcast will give you some helpful tools to raise Anti-racist kids as I discuss this topic with Rosemay Webster.
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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
DiAngelo, R. (2011). White Fragility. International Journal of Critical Pedagogy, 3(3), 54-70.
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
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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