Teaching Kids About Racism and Dealing with Stereotypes
A Book for Parents
- Hate Hurts: How Children Learn and Unlearn Prejudice, by the Anti-Defamation League, Caryl Stern-LaRosa, and Ellen Hoffheimer Bettmann
Books for Children
- Dealing With Racism, by Jen Green
- Let’s Talk About Racism, by Diane Shaughnessy
- The Skin I’m In: A First Look at Racism, by Pat Thomas
AF Articles
- Culture, Heritage, and Stereotypes
by Jerri Ann Jenista
If we don’t help our children understand stereotypes who will? - Raising A Child of Another Race
by Jana Wolff
Deliberate Parenting Can Make a Difference
Raising Asian Kids
A Book for Parents
- Yellow: Race in America Beyond Black and White, by Frank H. Wu
A Book for Children
- We Adopted You, Benjamin Koo, by Linda Walvoord Girard
AF Articles
- The China Doll
by Carrie Howard
When Excessive Attention Sets Children Apart - Becoming Adoptive Grandparents
by Jane Brown
I flashed back to encounters we’d had when Ian and his brothers and sisters were children. Now the shoe was on the other foot; I was the one singled out as different.
Raising Latino Kids
A Book for Parents
- Raising Nuestro Niños: Bringing Up Latino Children in a Bicultural World, by Gloria G. Rodriguez, Ph.D.
A Book for Children
- Carolyn’s Story: A Book About an Adopted Girl, by Perry Schwartz
AF Articles
- Connecting with a Culture
by Paula Hajar
A mother weaves a strand between her child’s Guatemalan heritage and her Arab ethnicity. - I Have Two Countries
by Beth Roth
Emilio returned to Bolivia to meet his new sister-and gained a renewed connection to his birth country.
Raising African American Kids
A Book for Parents
- I’m Chocolate, You’re Vanilla: Raising Healthy Black and Biracial Children in a Race-conscious World, by Marguerite Wright
A Book for Children
- The Colors of Us, by Karen Katz
AF Articles
- On Becoming African American
by Jane Sanders
“Raised in a white community, I’ve just begun to embrace my heritage…” - Transracial Adoption: A History in Black & White
by Phil Bertelsen
What have we learned over the last 30 years-and what are we doing now to offer our children a better understanding of who they are?
