by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Cloudscome
Weaving a Family: Untangling Race and Adoption by Barbara Katz Rothman. Beacon Press, 2005.
Rothman is a professor of sociology at Baruch College, CUNY. She’s written several other books on motherhood, giving birth, race, and gender. In Weaving a Family Rothman talks about her own experience as a white mother of three [...]

I wrote this piece a few years ago when I was a monthly columnist for a parenting-related site sponsored by a child advocacy organization. Disclaimer: I really enjoyed writing for that site, and my editor there was the best. However, this particular column was nixed because what they were looking for was more [...]

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 Tiffany Pridgen
Lately I’ve been thinking about what it means to “raise black children,” specifically when the children in question are multiracial. Apparently because they are part black they have to be treated with special consideration as they’ll face special prejudices.
It’s not a subject I typically devote a lot of brain [...]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Tami Winfrey Harris
I am a black woman who has spent my life trying to explain who I am.
I am the daughter of a son of the Jim Crow South. I am a member of a black family that helped integrate a white enclave in the 70s. I am the kid who [...]

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 Dawn Friedman
We are a transracial family. My husband, my son and myself are white. Our daughter is African-American and joined our family through an open, domestic adoption three years ago. Both my kids are being raised in my Jewish faith in that their formal religious education is happening at our synagogue. [...]

by Anti-Racist Parent Columnist Jae Ran Kim, originally published at Harlow’s Monkey
People ask me all the time for a “top 10″ list of suggestions or rules that are must-do’s regarding transracial adoption, and I’ll admit that I have a really hard time doing this.
Mostly, it’s because there is no easy prescription or formula for getting [...]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Maegan “la Mala” Ortiz
Maybe it’s because I’m a conscious Latina parent with a background in activism. Maybe it’s because I hate and don’t identify with the term Hispanic. Whatever the reason, I don’t celebrate or doing anything special for the 30 day period from September 15th to October 15th that we [...]

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 Tereza Topferova
Part I: My Many Colored Days
I took my son to a thrift store last month and bought a few toys, including a pink stroller and a black doll, and books. When we got home, I read one of them, My Many Colored Days by Dr. Seuss, with my son. [...]

by Anti-Racist Parent Columnist Jae Ran Kim, originally published at Harlow’s Monkey

Earlier this week, Rachel from Rachel’s Tavern shared with me a comment left on her blog in response to a post about the U.S.’s decision to end working with Guatemala’s adoption program. Rachel did a fantastic job responding to the points left by this [...]

by Anti-Racist Parent columnist Dawn Friedman
I was stuck on what to write this week but Carmen shared a list of some of the keywords people use to find their way here and there was one that stuck out to me: “naming adopted children”
I wrote an essay for Adoptive Families about (not) naming Madison that came [...]

Dear Anti-Racist Parent,

We are soon to be a multicultural family and I am from the belief that every culture has a rich heritage to be embraced. Our son is coming from China and I have not been content with the way some of my peers have incorporated their child’s culture into their everyday lives. I am looking for ways to give my son a positive self image about who he is as a whole but I don’t know how. Maybe you folks can help.