Title: Talking to Children about Race
Location: Ethical Culture, 516 Prospect Street, Maplewood, NJ 07040, 2nd Floor
Description: This is a follow-up discussion for participants who want to talk more about how parents talk to their kids about race. The discussion will be structured around the following articles:
From the Huffington Post: “The Color We See But Don’t Speak: How Race Impacts Our Kids” by Imani Perry who is a professor at Princeton University.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/imani-perry/the-color-we-see-but-dont_b_580515.html
“Why I Don’t Want to Talk about Race,” by Steve Locke,
http://goodmenproject.com/ethics-values/why-i-dont-want-to-talk-about-race
“I Talk About Race Because I Don’t Know How Not To”, a response by Sarah Jackson who is a Postdoctoral Teaching Fellow at Northeastern University in Boston, MA. Her research and teaching focus on how media discourses of race, class, and gender reinforce and/or challenge concepts of national belonging.
http://goodmenproject.com/ethics-values/i-talk-about-race-because-i-dont-know-how-not-to/.
Start Time: 7:30 pm
Date: 2011-10-05
