Raising White Kids with Jennifer Harvey

<p>The Reverend, <a href="https://jenniferharvey.org">Dr. Jennifer Harvey</a> is a parent, a writer, an educator, and an activist.  Her 2018 book <a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781501878077?aff=IntegratedSchools ">Raising White Kids: Bringing Up Children in a Racially Unjust America</a> offers age-appropriate insights for teaching children how to address racism when they encounter it and tackles tough questions about how to help white kids be mindful of racial relations while understanding their own identity and the role they can play for justice. </p><p>We discuss the book, but also her personal journey from elementary school, where she was bussed under a court ordered desegregation plan to a predominately Black school, to her time at <a href="https://utsnyc.edu">Union Seminary</a> in New York, studying with the late, great <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_H._Cone">Dr. James Cone</a>.  From the power of finding our shared humanity, to liberation we can all find in anti-racism, the importance of moving from thought to action, Dr. Harvey's insights feel incredibly important in this moment.  </p><p> </p><p><strong>LINKS:</strong></p><p><a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781501878077?aff=IntegratedSchools ">Raising White Kids</a> - Dr. Jennifer Harvey </p><p><a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781570758959?aff=IntegratedSchools">A Black Theology of Liberation</a> - Dr. James Cone</p><p><a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781626980051?aff=IntegratedSchools">The Cross and the Lynching Tree</a> - Dr. James Cone</p><p><a href="https://www.indiebound.org/book/9780415913935?aff=IntegratedSchools">Race Traitor</a> - Noel Ignatiev and John Garvey (a book of essays from the journal of the same name)</p><p><a href="https://www.rebekahgienapp.com/antiracist/">Raising Anti-Racist Kid</a>s - ebook by Rebekah Gienapp</p><p>An <a href="https://www.denverpost.com/2018/04/16/white-privilege-education-denver-public-schools/">article</a> about the event hosted in Denver, in 2018</p><p><a href=