Episode 21: Parenting While White (Part 1) -- Talking to White Kids About Race

IIn this episode, Jenna speaks with Mollie Monahan founder of Social Justice Kids, and Debby Irving, racial justice educator, and writer, about the need for talking about race with white kids, and some strategies for how to do it, along with some mistakes and lessons learned.

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Over 80% of teachers in the U.S. are white. But most don’t know that their whiteness matters. TWW seeks to move the conversation forward on how to be consciously, intentionally, anti-racist in the classroom. Because "white" does not mean a blank slate. It is a set of assumptions that is the baseline from which everything is judged; it is what passes for normal. This means if you are not white or don’t adhere to those assumptions, you are abnormal or less than. TWW wants to have conversations about those assumptions: what they are, how they impact our students, and how we can confront our assumptions to promote racial literacy.