onewell's review
5.0
Honestly if you haven’t read how to be an anti racist lowkey this is a crash course so maybe start here? This was incredibly applicable, honest, open, and filled with practical steps as well as rich research to more fully understand the importance of talking to kids from a young age about how race plays out. How kids can know how were all the same and how were all different. Must read imo
sumlittlebee's review against another edition
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
fkshg8465's review against another edition
emotional
informative
reflective
medium-paced
5.0
This book taught me so much more than I was ready to learn. I hope I can help to raise antiracists. It's hard work. The deck is stacked against us (especially in Texas where I live), and especially with my own family that has been indoctrinated in racist thinking since our own immigration and admittedly, our own assimilation. It was what we needed to survive. But now that we have surpassed survival and are successful, I feel like it's my personal duty to do better for the next generation by being an antiracist myself and helping my children grow up as such too. I appreciated this book because it wasn't only about the Black experience, though it obviously talked a lot about it, given it was based on the author's life experience. But he was conscientious about including all minority groups and other intersections. The intersection of being Black and disabled will sit with me a long time. So will the adultification of young Black children.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Racism
a_reflective_reader's review against another edition
challenging
hopeful
informative
medium-paced
phoenixphyrre's review
4.0
Practical advice on how to approach topics that parents either don't think about or don't know how to start woven with personal stories from his and his child's experiences growing up.