written by Anti-Racist Parenting columnist Liza Talusan
The other day, I took my children to a birthday party for their friend, Lucas, who was turning 3 years old. Lucas’s mom is Korean and his dad is Japanese.
While spending some quality time with my potty-learning daughter in the bathroom, she and I got into a conversation about [...]

crossposted from Mixed Race America
To close out APA Heritage/History Month, I want to give you the text of a speech by Jennifer Hyashida, which she made to City Hall in NYC. I know Jennifer–she is an AMAZING scholar-activist. Her words are truly inspiration and the perfect note to end APA Heritage Month:
2009 APA Heritage Month [...]

crossposted from Mixed Race America (written in 2008)
Before I start writing about “Orientalism” and “Orientalizing” it seems like I should give a definition for people who haven’t spent a lot of time thinking about this. Basically, it’s a form of exoticization and objectification of all things Asian (this includes “West Asian” aka: Middle-East).
I could give [...]

Hyphen blog is announcing a blog carnival to commemorate the 20th anniversary of The Joy Luck Club:
Help us honor and argue with The Joy Luck Club on the 20th Anniversary of its publication AND celebrate API Heritage Month in May! Send us your immigrant story in 300 words or less!
This year is the 20th Anniversary [...]

By Anti-Racist Parent columnist Liza Talusan, crossposted from To Loosen the Mind
As many readers know, I work at a predominantly white college in the US, where I am one of a handful of professionals of color. To keep myself entertained — rather, to keep myself from going nuts — I often try to find humor in [...]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Liza Talusan
My children seem to have a knack for asking me really deep, thought-provoking questions at the most inconvenient times. Usually this is when we are racing out the door, late for school/work/day care. This time, it happened on the way to driving my sister, a kulingtan musician, to teach at [...]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Liza Talusan
I guess I never really thought of myself as an anti-racist parent, but rather an educator about race and culture. As the Director of Intercultural Affairs at a small Catholic college in Massachusetts, much of my focus has been on raising awareness about the complexity of race, culture, power and [...]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Paula
Perhaps it’s just me – but as a parent of a biracial daughter and an Asian son – it’s far from my dream as their mother to have either of them enter into their adulthood thinking, believing, announcing and celebrating that they are white (or have our daughter claiming a white-only [...]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Lisa Marie
I come to Anti Racist Parent as a black woman, as a transracial adoptee and as a woman who recognizes parts of myself as a mother to my friends, my family, my youth, and my students – while at the same time, I have no biological children.
I was born [...]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Paula
Apparently I was the first Asian Rick had ever seen in real life – up close and personal.
“Wow. You are so healthy looking. I mean, I think it’s great. I just didn’t think. . .Wow. . .Really. . . You are just so. . .so healthy.”
I first met [...]

by guest contributor Jen Chau, originally published at The time is always right…
I hung out with Katie this weekend – she has gotten so big. The last time I saw her, she mostly looked at me with wide-open googly eyes, but on Saturday, she was completely with me. She laughed and giggled, made funny faces, [...]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Margie Perscheid, originally published at Third Mom
I have a little pendant that I’ve worn for many years. It’s tiny thing, a little gold filigree oval with the word ???, omoni, which is Korean for mother, in the center. I don’t remember where I bought it, from an online store I think. [...]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Margie Perscheid, originally published at Third Mom
My oldest child went away to college in the fall. It’s a huge milestone, but he’s breezing through it with barely an emotional ripple. Not so his mom.
I’m finding quite hard, actually to think back on the days when he was little [...]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Margie Perscheid, originally published at Third Mom
I’m so very tired of people who think the right response to anyone they disagree with is leave.
Someone said that to me in an online discussion this week, as a way of voicing their disagreement with my political point of view. The fact [...]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Jason Sperber
This is where we live.
A couple weeks ago, my wife and I took our almost-three-year-old daughter to her first county fair. She got to eat French fries and funnel cake, look at cows, and dance like crazy to Los Lobos, performing live in a concert sponsored by an [...]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Paula
It is an honor to participate in the dialogue here at Anti-Racist Parent as a columnist. As a Korean adoptee of white parents who is married to a white man with two children – including a daughter who was born unto us and a son who, like me, is adopted from [...]

by Anti-Racist Parent Columnist Jae Ran Kim, originally published at Harlow’s Monkey
. . . I will be on a plane to South Korea. I am embarking on my third trip to Korea since 2000 (also the third trip to my birth country since I was adopted) – interestingly, I will arrive in Seoul on the [...]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Mike Lee
My wife and I recently had a beautiful baby boy 3 months ago, and sometimes talk about how to raise him with a strong sense of his Korean-American identity. My wife and I are both Korean-American and were essentially born and raised here— she born in the U.S., and I [...]

by Anti-Racist Parent Columnist Michelle Myers
A month ago, my uncle tried to kill my aunt by shooting her in the head with a shotgun, and then he killed himself with it. It happened the day after I had emailed my last post to Carmen, and she had told me it would go up at the [...]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Amber
Before we traveled to China to adopt our younger daughter, I expected that a white mom carrying an obviously Asian baby would attract a lot of attention from the locals. In the city where we met my new daughter L, few Chinese are even aware that international adoption exists. [...]