Read about a new tool from the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture that aims to help teach kids about race.
Racism isn’t present in us when we’re born—it’s taught to us as we experience the world and grow up. According to several pediatric experts, children start to pick up differences in people based on race in infancy, so it’s important to have conversations around race, racism and privilege starting from a young age. To help, The Smithsonian’s National Museum of African American History and Culture is launching a new tool to help teach kids about these important topics.
The museum had initially planned to launch the portal at a later date, but following the unjust killings of Breonna Taylor, George Floyd and countless others, along with the ensuing protests, they decided to launch early. According to the press release, the number one question the museum is asked is how to talk about race, especially with children.
“We recognize how difficult it is to start that conversation. But in a nation still struggling with the legacies of slavery, Jim Crow laws, and white supremacy, we must have these tough conversations if we have any hope of turning the page and healing. This new portal is a step in that direction,” Spencer Crew, interim director of the“The portal offers a wealth of resources to inform and guide discussions—videos, role-playing exercises, targeted questions and more,” Crew continued.
The online portal builds upon decades of extensive research and work done by the museum’s educators, experts, activists and historians, includes Brené Brown, Kimberlé Williams Crenshaw, Robin DiAngelo, Julie Olsen Edwards, Jerry Kang, Ibram X Kendi, Enid Lee, Audre Lorde, Beverly Daniel Tatum, Bishop Desmond Tutu and Tim Wise.
Phase one of the portal includes eight subjects, including being anti-racist; bias; community building; historial foundations of race; race and racial identity; self-care and social identities and systems of oppression; and whiteness. To learn more about the topics and explore the online portal, visit the museum’s [
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