How to talk to your children about race and racism
Two evening workshops on how to talk to our children about race & racism
Workshop #1: Overview of race and racism:
Participants learn about the social construction of race. The training provides parents, guardians and caregivers with strategies for how to talk about race and racism with their children. Participants learn how children see race, gain skills for approaching age-appropriate conversations with a racial equity lens, and practice strategies to promote positive racial identity development in children.
When: Friday, May 4th from 6-8pm
Where: TNS, Room TBD
How: Child care provided for TNS students; pizza provided for parents & kids (donations for pizza welcome)
Workshop #2: Affinity Group* Conversations
You MUST do workshop #1 to participate in the second.
We will break up into two “affinity groups.” One group will be parents of color and the other will be white parents. The Border Crossers facilitators will lead deeper discussions of race and racism, responding to the individual questions of each group.
When: Wednesday, May 9th from 6-8pm
Where: TNS, Rooms TBD
How: Babysitting and pizza provided (donations for pizza welcome)
*Why an Affinity Group?
Racial affinity groups give us a safe space to reconstruct our racial identities as positive, aware, and anti-racist. Affinity groups do not take the place of cross-cultural/cross-racial dialogues, but rather serve to enhance and support positive, healthy communication and interactions.
