The Expat Mom Podcast

How to Raise Anti-Racist Kids Abroad Part 2 with Rosemay Webster

May 02, 2022 Jennie Linton Episode 81
The Expat Mom Podcast
How to Raise Anti-Racist Kids Abroad Part 2 with Rosemay Webster
Show Notes

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.

Things You'll Learn on the Podcast:

  • Why avoiding talking about skin color promotes racism
  • How to talk about race with your child
  • What creates implicit bias
  • How to minimize implicit bias in our children
  • Unique ways expat kids develop bias' they might not in their home country
  • How to help kids avoid turning negative experiences with your host culture into broader bias

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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