How identity shapes the way we keep our children safe
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What kind of conversation did you give to your children or get from your parents?
Our Edward R. Murrow Award-winning series about the difficult conversations taking place in the homes of marginalized families in order to keep their children safe in a society gripped by culture wars and deeply entrenched racism.
An exploration through the lens of ethnicity, ability, sexuality, immigration status, and gender.
We have to talk about The Talk—A message from The editors
The Emancipator is quite obsessed with the idea of The Talk, the one where Black parents convey a different set of behavioral rules and expectations to their children to keep them safe — and alive. We’re also invested in what that conversation looks like along the lines of ethnicity, ability, sexuality, immigration status, and gender.
The Talk: How identity shapes the way we keep our children safe
Depending on who you are and how you live, this conversation can go a lot of ways.
Lily’s big hair day
For the last year of pre-kindergarten, my daughter, Lily, has thrived as the only Black child in her entire school, where her teachers and school administrators love her, care for her, and support her. But there have been some bumps that mostly involved race; one instance was related to her hair.
A letter to my White sons
Joanna Schroeder on the talk she has with her White sons breaking down the red flags of White nationalism.
The Talk: How these young Sikh Americans stay safe in the world
These Sikh American youth share the unique conversations about faith and identity that happen in their homes.
For Chinese American families, young people are taught to self-police lest they offend
When I was growing up, whenever my family ventured beyond our known spaces — our home and school and Chinatown — we knew we had to be careful of our physical safety.
The Talk: A dual reality for Native kids
This unprecedented moment of representation exists in the same reality wherein you still go to a nontribal school and have to sit in a classroom and listen to social studies teachers turn our genocide into a “necessary” evil of progress — if it’s framed as an evil at all.
The ‘model minority’ in the middle no more?
While many Indian American families simply ignore “The Talk” or encourage silence until it is forced, many are now learning to talk about race.
