Marianne, how do I pronounce your last name? Say-Lano? Che-lano?

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Hello everyone! Glad you’re here!

Thanks for joining, all! We had close to 800 registrants for this conversation.

Is everyone seeing/hearing okay? Any issues?

Hi Tiffany! Thanks for being here!

Sounds great!

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Excellent. Thanks!

Yes, perfect.

Beautiful

Love the pictures, so much to point out to young children

I’m curious about how folks explain the role of police to young children.

@Ellen, my 4-year-old had a negative impression of police after visiting the King Center, so we talked about how most police officers are good people who want to help everyone, but that power can be a dangerous thing when people use it to make bad choices.

Thanks, Jennifer!

Sounds like a powerful book!

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Beautiful book! Great means for addressing kids' concerns in thoughtful, helpful ways that provide age appropriate language and context for them.

How do I respond to an elementary school principal who says that she is uncomfortable asking all of our teachers sharing this book because some of our teachers might be uncomfortable talking about race with their students?

Hello - This is a very helpful article on that topic of talking about race in a school setting: https://slj.com/?detailStory=educators-and-race-a-conversation-with-author-ijeoma-oluo-on-tackling-systemic-racism-in-us-education

Thank you!

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what do you say to parents who worry their children are too young or the parents that are teaching their kids to be “colorblind”?

I think it’s important that schools give teachers resources for having conversations about race, and not just expect that teachers will know how to do that

As white parents, we have two white sons and one obviously biracial son, and I feel this will be such a great explanation. We’ve been looking! Thank you!

TeachingTolerance.org is a great resource. I imagine many of you are familiar with it but I thought I’d share just in case.

Teaching For Change is another valuable website

When parents think kids are too young or that kids are colorblind, I often share data from research that has helped me learn that babies toddlers and preschoolers are aware of race and acquiring biases. I connect it to what we know about motor development - we know what kind of experiences babies, toddlers, etc., need to be able to develop strength and coordination, so we provide it. Now that we have research that helps us know what young children need vis a vis race, we know we need to give them opportunities to learn language to describe what they see and context to understand bias, taking action, etc.

I learned a lot from this article http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.621.9728&rep=rep1&type=pdf

Thank you!

thank you so much, sara

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Thanks, Sarae!

Teachingforchange.org

Hi Sara! I love how you explained that—the link is not working—would you mind sharing the name of the article so I can google it? Would love to read more on this perspective

We can’t hear Melissa

I have been talking to my 4 white kids about what it means to be an advocate and it sounds like this book would be a great support for that discussion.

From Enid Lee,Santa Cruz. I shared the site TeachingforChange.org

What did the policeman who was present have to say?

Hi Enid! I participated in a workshop with you, when I first started doing this work over 20 years ago. You’re a ROCKSTAR! Thank you for your steadfast commitment to this work!

thank you, Kristen!

Thanks Lin.I would like to connect. Let me know how to reach out to you.

Having a lot of trouble hearing Andrew and Melissa

Good point about agency of African American boy.

Typically with Zoom, if one person is speaking, the sound is better if the others on the call mute their mics

thx for this tip

Ages and stages of race awareness in children - not flawless but has some good information - https://www.uua.org/sites/live-new.uua.org/files/documents/derman-sparkslouise/1206_233_identity_stages.pdf

Sure -sorry link’s not working. It’s called Children Are Not Colorblind, by Winkler

Thanks Sara!

Hi again, Enid - I just left my contact info on your consultancy site.

From Enid Lee,Santa Cruz . Does the book deal with the challenge or hard time that can come to you by standing up?

Would it be possible to compile the resources recommended by attendees and authors/panelists to email to all of us or add to EmbraceRace? Thank you all so much for putting this together tonight!

Sure! We can put it all together and send out. Great resources.

This is an important book. One thing that gave me pause, however, was the introduction of slavery and the concrete associations of Africa to slavery without any positive counterbalance in terms of where African people who were enslaved by Europeans came from. How do you think the presentation of Africa and reference to "slaves" rather than the enslavement of African people will contribute to children's understanding of Africa/Africans? And how will this contribute to African American children's understanding of themselves and where they come from? -Particularly if this is their first exposure to discussions about Africa or about slavery. Has this come up as you have presented the book?

So sorry about the difficulty hearing us, folks. Not sure what changed there. We’ll try to figure it out for next time.

Marianne, that is birilliant! Thank you!

Hurray! The computer made an adjustment on its own - fixed!

Thank you Chris (I can’t see your full name - I hope I got it right)

@Christiana - you should pose that question in the Q&A box

Christina great point!

From Enid Lee, Santa Cruz .Good question about slavery vs enslavement. Introduction of Africa through slavery ?

From Enid Lee,Santa Cruz.If you focus on the untold resistance of Africans it can make a difference.

From Enid Lee ,Santa CruzBut 4 or 5 year olds can be introduced to enslavement

Thank you all for your comments.

To play devil’s advocate, if kids know the term slave, wouldn’t it be pretty easy to learn the terms enslaved and enslavement?

Part of the “counter balance” is beginning any conversation about enslavement—or better still—African Americans in the US—with our lives in varied countries on the continent. Our history did not begin with enslavement on these shore.

Good work.A brave up!

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Brave book!

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