The Embrace Race Podcast

Mar 24 2024 8 ep. 37 mins 7
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The EmbraceRace podcast brings you the best and latest advice on how to guide kids around race by bringing you conversations with researchers and practitioners. The podcast is hosted by co-parents and EmbraceRace co-directors, Melissa Giraud and Andrew Grant-Thomas, and features questions, voices and stories from the larger EmbraceRace community (that’s you!). The podcast is an extension of the work of EmbraceRace, a community of support for caregivers, parents, educators, and other adults in the lives of kids who strive to be informed, thoughtful and brave about race so that their kids can be too. At EmbraceRace, we create and curate the tools, community spaces, and networks we all need to raise a generation of kids who are resilient, empathetic, critical thinkers on race and who are committed to racial justice.

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Season Finale! Friends reflect on their race and kids journeys as caregivers

Mar 24 2024 50 mins  
On this last episode of Season 1, EmbraceRace co-founders and co-hosts Melissa Giraud and Andrew Grant-Thomas go back to where it all began. They invite a few friends and neighbors over - all parents, and one educator among them - to talk about their own learning journeys as caregivers trying to guide children around race back when EmbraceRace started in early 2016 vs. now. What ha

Myth #5, Part 2: "Racist” kids are raised by “racist” parents (What visible systems of inequality teach kids about race)

Mar 17 2024 36 mins  
In this conversation, we continue to counter the myth that if our kids express racist ideas they must have gotten them at home, from their caregivers. There are so many sources from which kids learn about race. Last episode we looked at one source: children’s media. On today’s episode, we look at another source of children’s racial learning: the racial inequality kids see all

Myth #5, Part 1: "Racist" kids are raised by “racist” parents (Children’s Media)

Mar 10 2024 39 mins  
(Part 1: A look at what children’s media teaches kids about race)It’s easy to think that racist behaviors start at home. But the truth is, how a person sees, maneuvers, and behaves in the world is more complicated. On today's episode, hosts Melissa and Andrew speak with Courtney Wong Chin, Senior Director of Research at Nickelodeon’s Noggin, about the role the media plays in

Myth #4: Talking about race makes you racist

Mar 03 2024 41 mins  
One child says to another: “Your skin is darker than mine” or “Why are your eyes that shape?” You overhear them. How do you react? Too often, adults shush kids when they talk about race because they don’t want them to “say things that are racist.” In this episode, hosts Melissa and Andrew speak with Brigitte Vittrup, a developmental psychologist who studies how k

Myth #3: Multiracial kids will lead the way to racial harmony

Feb 25 2024 48 mins  
On this episode, hosts Melissa Giraud and Andrew Grant-Thomas speak with Gina Miranda Samuels, Professor at the University of Chicago School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice, about why “multiracial” kids are often seen as part of the solution to our racial conflicts. How does that belief affect those kids and how might we respond as caregivers?Head to our website to learn m

Myth #2: Younger generations are less racist than older ones

Feb 18 2024 35 mins  
On this episode, hosts Melissa Giraud and Andrew Grant-Thomas speak with Candis Watts Smith, Professor of Political Science at Duke University, about the widespread belief that “racism will die off as older generations do.” Candis has studied this question and lays out why it’s untrue, lasting and harmful. Like other enduring myths about race, this one confuses people and is

Myth #1: Young kids (especially babies) don't see race

Feb 11 2024 40 mins  
Welcome to the first episode of the Embrace Race podcast! It’s a show about how to raise kids who are thoughtful, informed and brave about race, brought to you by EmbraceRace, an organization created to support you to do just that. On this episode, hosts Melissa Giraud and Andrew Grant-Thomas tell you the backstory of EmbraceRace, and then dive into a conversation with devel

Introducing: The EmbraceRace Podcast

Jan 28 2024 4 mins  
The EmbraceRace podcast brings you the best and latest advice on how to guide kids around race through informative conversations with researchers and practitioners. This season, we counter long-standing myths about race and kids and talk about How Kids ACTUALLY Learn About Race. The podcast is hosted by co-parents and EmbraceRace co-directors, Melissa Giraud and Andrew Grant-Thomas