Your Kids Aren't Too Young to Talk About Race: Resource Roundup
So you’ve realized your kids aren’t too young to talk about race, so now what? We’ve rounded up some resources for you to start.
I found this short podcast put together by NPR and the Sesame Street Workshop to be a great one for a primer and understanding on how to talk to young children about race:
Talking Race With Young Children (Podcast Episode)
The Children’s Community School in Philidelphia did all the research and legwork on this information. We adapted it. Check out their amazing resource page here:
More Articles and Tips for Parents and Caregivers:
Anti-Racism For Kids 101: Starting To Talk About Race
Here's How W. Kamau Bell Talks About Race With His Kids
100 Race-Conscious things you can say to your child to advance racial justice
Article on Raising Race-Conscious Children
4 Things We Should All Teach Kids About Racism Right Now
Great Educational Podcast for Adults on the History of Race in America
Seeing White Series on Scene On Radio
For Teachers & Educators:
Books for Adults:
So You Want to Talk About Race by Ijeoma Oluo
How to Be Antiracist by Ibram X. Kendi
Books for Children
The Ultimate 2018 List of Diverse Books For Children (Here Wee Read is a great resource for books! Follow her Instagram!)
No White Saviors: Kids Books About Black Women in US History (Books For Littles)
Children’s Books By Brilliant Black Women: #OwnVoices Authors & Illustrators (Books for Littles)
A few more:
Antiracist Baby by Ibram X. Kendi
Whose Toes Are Those? by Jabari Asim
Let’s Talk About Race by Julius Lester
Sugarplum Ballerinas by Whoopi Goldberg
Toys:
A roundup of Studies and Articles cited in the Infographic above:
Three-month-olds, but not newborns, prefer own-race faces
Handbook of Race, Racism and the Developing Child
Developmental Psychopathology: Perspectives on Adjustment, Risk, and Disorder