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Anti-Racist Parenting Session 1
Introduction to Talking About Race
Objectives
- Reflect on our own experiences with race and our racial development
- Develop a shared and personal vision/mission for the course
- Ground motivations for participation in research on anti-racist parenting
Weekly Slides
In-Class Activities
White Domination Culture Characteristics
At-Home Practice
Each week of this program, there will be one or two activities that will help you practice these ideas and concepts at home. We ask that you try to do these activities each week and upload them to Google Drive, although we understand it might not always be possible. The more you practice, the more you will learn!
At-Home Practice 1: Letter to Yourself
For this activity, write a brief letter to yourself about your own journey of racial development so far in your life and how you were parented around race. This activity is tied to the first objective of this week’s session: Reflect on our own experiences with race and our racial development. There is no length requirement–the goal is just to spend some time reflecting on your own childhood and racial development.
In your letter:
- List 3-5 parenting practices around race that were part of your own childhood. These may be explicit practices, such as things your parents said to you, or implicit, such as the people you spent time with or things that were implied but not directly said. Try to make this list as concrete as possible. (implicit and/or explicit).
- Spend some time reflecting on your list. In your letter, discuss which of those practices you might want to hold on to and which ones you’d like to leave behind. Are there any of these that are in line with your parenting goals, but might need to be updated or tweaked?
- End the letter by discussing your reasons for signing up for this course and your hopes for your own racial identity development in the future.
Please upload your letter to your personal folder on Google Drive.
At-Home Practice 2: Glasses for A-Stigmatism
For this activity, watch this video and read along with the printed poem (written by a UW-Madison student, Cassidy Martin) on pages 23-24 of your toolkit. This assignment is tied to all three objectives of this week’s session: 1) Reflect on our own experiences with race and our racial development; 2) Develop a shared and personal vision/mission for the course; 3) Ground motivations for participation in research on anti-racist parenting.
Identify a line from the poem that resonates with you and come prepared to share in the next session.
Dive Deeper Resources
Reflection on Whiteness from the National Museum of African American History & Culture
