Category: Family/Parenting

  • Russo: Telling my biracial boys the truth The Cincinnati Enquirer Cincinnati, Ohio 2016-02-21 Regina Carswell Russo Hyde Park resident Regina Carswell Russo is a public relations professional, cultural arts ambassador and CEO of RRight Now Communications. My beautiful sons are blissfully unaware of their blended heritage. More specifically, their blended race. It’s how my husband…

  • Helping mixed-race Asian kids navigate a world that isn’t post-racial The Seattle Times 2016-03-16 Jerry Large, Columnist Sharon H. Chang is author of “Raising Mixed Race: Multiracial Children in a Post-Racial World.” (Courtesy of Sheila Addleman) Seattle author writes about the challenges of raising multiracial Asian children in America and helping then overcome racial biases.…

  • We Live Here rerun: Being biracial in America St. Louis Public Radio 90.7 KWMU, KWMU-2, KWMU-3: News That Matters. Saint Louis, Missouri 2016-03-07 Shula Neuman, Executive Editor We originally aired this podcast on what its like to be multi-racial about six months ago. The project was the brainchild of Emanuele Berry, one of the founding…

  • The Racial Reality of Being Mixed Race 91.3 KBCS Radio Bellevue, Washington 2016-03-04 Sonya Green, News & Public Affairs Director What does it mean to mixed race? It’s a term recognized but rarely considered in conversations about race and racial identity. However, it should be since according to reports, multiracial individuals are the fastest growing…

  • 9 Benefits of Being in an Intercultural Marriage Masala Mommas: An Online Magazine for Today’s Moms with a South Asian Connection 2016-02-17 Alexandra Madhavan My husband is from South India and I am Canadian. We are the living, walking, breathing epitome of cultural differences – he is Hindu, I am Catholic; he is a strict…

  • Mom Writes Book, ‘Bad Hair Does Not Exist!’ For Daughters NBC News 2016-02-17 Maya Chung Bad Hair Does Not Exist/Pelo Malo No Existe! is a Children’s Book by Sulma Arzu-Brown. “Bad Hair Does Not Exist!” is a new bilingual book that encourages young Black, Afro-Latino, and multi-racial girls to see themselves, and their hair, as…

  • An Exploration of Racial Considerations in Partnered Fathers’ Involvement in Bringing Up Their Mixed-/Multi-Race Children in Britain and New Zealand Fathering: A Journal of Theory, Research, and Practice about Men as Fathers Volume 13, Number 2 (2015) 26 pages Rosalind Edwards, Professor of Sociology University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom Chamion Caballero, Visiting Senior Fellow…

  • TEDx USF with Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman TEDx USF University of South Florida Tampa, Florida 2016-02-08 From November 2015, Assistant Professor of Sociology Elizabeth Hordge-Freeman discusses her new book, The Color of Love: Racial Features, Stigma, and Socialization in Black Brazilian Families.

  • Motherhood in Liminal Spaces: White Mothers’ Parenting Black/White Children Affilia Volume 31, Number 4 (November 2016) pages 434-449 DOI: 10.1177/0886109916630581 Mary Elizabeth Rauktis, Research Assistant Professor of Social Work University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Rachel A. Fusco, Associate Professor of Social Work University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania Sara Goodkind, Associate Professor of Social Work University…

  • Ethics generally commends telling the truth. But in a situation in which our ordinary ways of thinking are at odds with reality, there can be no easy truth to be had. When it comes to race, confusion is the most intellectually defensible position.