​by Gina E. Miranda Samuels, PhD, MSW I am a transracial adoptee who has spent my professional life working with and conducting research on the experiences of multiracial families and families created by transracial adoption. These guidelines offer suggestions for adults raising children in multiracial families, with special considerations for families that include transracial adoptees.  ​Transracial adoption is a unique context in which children learn about race, ethnicity and culture, and has important implications for how parents can support their children, within and beyond fami ..read more

Video available soon Get the tip sheet Additional Resources There are plenty of myths and facts on the topic of transracial adoption, including who transracial adoptees are, pathways into transracial adoption, and the practices and policies that shape it today. Join Talking Race & Kids in a conversation with Professor Gina E. Miranda Samuels, herself a transracial adoptee researcher and expert, for a look at a few of the common experiences of race and racism faced by transracial adoptive families and people who are transracially adopted, and at issues unique to sub-groups wi ..read more

By Marti Dumas ​My oldest is a voracious reader and consumer of content, so if it looks vaguely interesting, she reads it from cover to cover no matter how many pages are in between. My youngest is a different story. He was a much more reluctant reader, but just like his phase of eating only blueberries and soy milk (yes, that was a thing) now that he has realized how much he likes fantasy adventures, he won’t read anything but. With a few highly notable exceptions, fantasy has been overwhelmingly focused on white characters. That is slowly beginning to change in the yo ..read more

Register to join! Fantasy fiction has always been about more than cool abilities and alternate universes. Whether the heroes are seemingly regular kids, mermaids, cyborgs, witches or what-have-you, the stories are often propelled by issues of power and justice, and they often empower readers to expect and imagine possibilities that upend conventions. But why then does a genre known for upending conventions still insist on making the vast majority of its heroes and main characters white? Whether we’re talking Harry Potter or Frozen, the lack of inclusion (and not just racial) in ..read more

Register to join Video available tomorrow Get the Tip Sheet ​White nationalism is in the news and our kids are listening. In addition to the anxiety and anger provoked by the headlines, kids are also encountering this hateful ideology online, at school, in their peer groups and communities. Parents and youth workers need to know how to recognize signs of recruitment efforts, as well as the vulnerabilities that might leave a young person susceptible to recruitment. ​Tonight on Talking Race & Kids, Andrew and Melissa speak with teacher Nora Flanagan and youth wo ..read more

That’s her on the left. She loved sunglasses. And me. And whiteness. (All photos taken and owned by the author) ​Both sides of my family, the white one but especially the Southeast Asian one, are going to freak when they see that title. However, since my mom went to the great Gucci outlet in the sky a few years ago, there is no one here to throw a massage sandal at my head and verbally assault me for an hour in response. And my dad barely does email, let alone read blogs, so let’s continue. ​ The title of my story is the great unspoken truth for many of us North Americans “of color.” I ..read more

Watch the Video Tip sheet (English) Read the Transcript Tip Sheet (Spanish) With well over two million people in state and federal prisons, juvenile correctional facilities, local jails, detention facilities, and other spaces of confinement, the United States incarcerates people at a higher rate than any other country in the world - and it's not close. The harms done by mass incarceration extend to every domain of social life, not least to the bonds between children and their parents. Most often, these parents and kids are people of color. Andrew and Melissa of EmbraceRace ..read more

Early family photo in 1951. The author is on the bottom right. In 1943 in Manhattan, NY, a 46-year old African- and Native-American man who was a renowned band director and jazz composer marries a 19-year old naive European-American woman of Jewish Ukrainian descent, who wants to sing professionally. I’m the second of five children. At age four, I overhear Mommy telling her Mom she won’t leave Daddy and me in order to come back home with my whiter looking brother. Every year of our growing up, Mommy takes the whitest looking child to find new housing, and our unwanted family moves in ..read more

Watch the Video Read the Transcript Get the tip sheet Additional Resources Guest Bios ​The Conversation: A growing number of children across the U.S. and Canada born to Indigenous parents are not being enrolled as “tribal members” because they are not eligible under blood quantum requirements, generally defined as the share of their ancestors documented as full-blood Natives. Lacking the documentation of their membership in a state or federally recognized Indian tribe, this generation of “Paperless Indians” are also not eligible for a wide range of tribal government servi ..read more

Watch the video Read the Transcript Watch EmbraceRace's conversation with a mom and son pair who, respectively, cofounded and is an alum of the Los Angeles based group Kids 4 Freedom & Justice, created to be a "space for kids of color of all genders to learn and share practices of liberation, wholeness and foster their fierceness in a cohort of their peers." Co-founder Kim Tabari and her son, Azaan, a K4FJ alum, join the EmbraceRace community to share their insights about the opportunities and challenges of preparing youth of color to be changemakers in a world that often works ..read more