Readings for Diversity and Social Justice .pdf
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For justice, healing, and liberation,
Angela Berkfield
Excerpts from the Book
From the Forewords,
by Fall brown and chris crass
"If we have any hope of changing the world and earning our correct to remain hither,
we are required to alter our parenting. Instead of parenting towards a 'norm'
that keeps our children functional inside of supremacy, our call, our covenant with the
earth, must be to prepare our children to shape change. I encourage you to read
this important and timely book with an orientation of humility in the journey."
—Fall Dark-brown, www.iambrown.org
"Every bit a parent at present, of ii immature white boys, I'm so grateful for this incredible book.Parenting 4 Social Justice is dynamite, a sacred offering, a manual and a blessing.
Dynamite to explode the nightmare logic of systemic oppression that rationalizes and normalizes brutal injustice. A sacred offering that brings together vast knowledge and wisdom from liberation movements, ancestors, contemporary thinkers, and the hearts of parents—just like you lot—who love their kids and desire to terminate the nightmare and build the dream of beloved community. A transmission total of helpful insights, stories, recommendations, reflection questions, and guided practices to basis us and sustain united states.
And it is a approval, as the authors invite us to be with them on this journey, equipping united states and encouraging us to be parents joining together for social justice—for a globe where all of our kids tin go gratuitous in a guild that loves, cherishes, and cares for all of us."
—Chris Crass, www.chriscrass.org
From the Introduction,
by Angela Berkfield
My feet are on stolen land. I am descended from settler-colonizers. All the wearing apparel on my trunk and the computer in my hands are somehow connected to the extraction of resources from Mother Earth and the exploitation of the labor of people in the U.S. and all over the world. I recognize that reality. I acknowledge the suffering I am connected to. And yet, I have the deepest belief that another earth is possible.
This volume is dedicated to that world, a world we are co-creating right now through the ways we interact with each other and with all living beings effectually us: connected, loving, transforming, healing, regenerating, equitable, peaceful, just.
From chapter 3: Parenting for RAcial Justice, by Chrissy Colón Bradt and Angela Berkfield
Conversations well-nigh race and racism are challenging because they bring up our own traumas and experiences.
When we put into words the inequity and injustice nosotros experience, see, and even participate in, nosotros can feel a lot of emotions. In these conversations we as well demand to support our kids in navigating any emotions these conversations bring upward for them. It helps to be honest with your children near what yous know and how much more than you have to learn. Information technology also helps to be honest near your feelings and help them identify their feelings. Acknowledging and tending to the very powerful feelings that come up when engaging in racial justice work is important to sustaining date.
From chapter 4: Parenting for Economic justice,
by Jaimie Lynn Kessell and Angela Berkfield
It can be emotionally challenging to have cross-grade friendships. In these relationships nosotros are constantly confronted with the reality that we have more than or less than our friend. We bump up confronting our rough edges, our rigidity, our entitlement, our intense emotions, and our cultural differences.
Notwithstanding in many ways, cross-course friendships that are built on solidarity improve our lives. They prompt us to share and be generous. They teach usa well-nigh reciprocity and mutuality. Cross-class friendships are a constant reminder that people are having different experiences in the earth, keeping u.s.a. apprehensive and flexible. They circumspection us that capitalism is not working for the bulk of people. They can remind us that we are more than our circumstances.
From Chapter 5: Parenting for Disability Justice, past Rowan Parker and Abigail Healey
Think about the qualities you praise in your children. If yous find yourself praising them for what might be considered "innate abilities" such as intelligence, strength, or artistic talent, recollect about what you lot are saying about people with and without those abilities. Practice you make it clear that yous volition support them in whatever they do, even if it does not line up with the values you were raised with?
Tom Drummond, a former professor of early childhood education in Seattle, Washington, suggests not praising your children at all. He suggests that adults should use narration, non-verbal positive communication, and informational feedback on children'southward activities and accomplishments. Describing valued behavior reinforces a child'southward choice to perform that behavior, and avoiding the use of praise focuses your kid'due south concentration on their behaviors and choices—which they tin control—rather than their innate abilities, which they cannot command.
For example, instead of proverb "good job, you're and then smart," describe specific behaviors: "You lot turned the piece until information technology fit into the puzzle. You figured it out!"
Instead of saying "what a cute picture, y'all're so talented," describe the artwork: "I encounter that you used lots of colors in your painting. There is a red circle and a blue squiggle."
on commonage liberation,
by Bister Arnold, a parent Contributor
I believe in collective care and collective customs. I believe that I am responsible for the care and dear of all children on this world. I do my best to remind myself that how I show up in the world isn't but nearly me, it's virtually all of you lot and your babies likewise. When you lot hurt, I hurt and when I hurt, yous hurt. None of us will exist fully liberated when the other beings in our communities are yet experiencing hurting, oppression, and marginalization.
I believe that though I tin't change the whole world, I am responsible for deeply loving, nourishing, and caring for my own trunk. By taking that seriously and practicing my ain care I am embodying what I wish for my children and those around me and I am sharing that intendance with others.
What Readers Are Saying
"Parenting four Social Justice is an excellent resources for preparing young people to survive, thrive, build community and work for justice. It gives adults the tools they need to combine their dearest for our children with their love for the globe. The authors' stories are honest and insightful, the conversation examples are helpful and reassuring, the reading/listening/watching resources are invaluable, and the taking action suggestions are varied and doable. I'one thousand excited to recommend this book to everyone who hangs out with young people and can't await to give out copies to parents, teachers and youth workers I know."
—Paul Kivel, educator, activist, author of Uprooting Racism and Boys Will Exist Men: Raising Our Sons for Courage, Caring and Community,www.paulkivel.com
"Parenting 4 Social Justice is a peachy tool for parents committed to breaking the silence about 'isms' in our society, bringing together a rich drove of resource, existent-life examples, and guided opportunities for reflection. Wherever you are in your social justice journeying, there is something here for yous to learn."
—Beverly Daniel Tatum, PhD, president emerita of Spelman College, author ofWhy Are All the Black Kids Sitting Together in the Deli? And Other Conversations Virtually Race, www.beverlydanieltatum.com
Louise Derman-Sparks, author of Anti-Bias Education for Young Children and Ourselves
Young children begin to form their ideas nearly who they are and nigh multifariousness amongst people at an early on age. This learning process is deeply influenced by the prejudices that circulate in our club. Parenting 4 Social Justice offers numerous ways for families to raise children who have empathy for people across our many kinds of diversity and have tools for standing up for fairness and justice.
Parenting four Social Justice offers parents a creative roadmap for raising socially-minded kids. Through the book's realistic prompts and examples of actual conversations, parents can learn to navigate and cover talking (and taking activity!) with their children on topics that may be uncomfortable only are timely and needed.
Stevie, White, heterosexual, center-form raised parent to kids age 11 and 7, FL
Parenting iv Social Justicehelped me tackle the difficult conversations I wanted to have with my children but didn't know how to get started. It made me call up on a fundamental level about my own beliefs on race, class, gender, ability, capitalism then much more than (along with their interconnections). I got lost in the stories and perspectives and ended up realizing this is much more than than tips to assistance kids, it is merely as much a guidebook for adults to reverberate on these issues as well. Highly recommended!
Shonda Smith, Black woman (she/her/hers) raised in Brooklyn, now planted in NJ, 17-year-quondam girl and 15-year-erstwhile son
Readings for Diversity and Social Justice .pdf
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