Raising niños in a mixed and matched world.
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Multicultural Familia™ Launches New Deals Site for Multicultural Families Sioux Falls, SD – January 30th, 2012 – Multicultural Familia™ has launched a new deals site for multicultural families. The aim of the site is to highlight businesses and organizations that offer products and services that meet the needs of a growing online multicultural [...]
Image via pbs.org Slavery and the Making of America One of the best films series I’ve probably ever seen, I think this is the ultimate disc series to give the avid anti-racist. There is a wealth of information here that few films can match. Between historic and social elements in these films, you’re sure to come out of [...]
Both my husband and I grew up in families with limited access to dental care and our experiences with dentist were always much more dramatic as a result of our infrequent visits. Nowadays there are more resources available for underprivileged children, but many adults are still without health and dental coverage, resulting in inadequate [...]
Image Credit: John Poole/NPR South Dakota is forcibly removing Indian children from their homes, and in many cases, there is no cause to warrant the removal. What’s worse, they haven’t been honoring the Indian Child Welfare Act and are relocating Indian children to white families, with little or no consideration for maintaining cultural roots or family relationships. These [...]
Special Needs & Stereotyping Children of Color … Sadder still, is the fact that this practice of generalizing children of color as having “attitude problems” or being “troubled” isn’t only related to special needs. There is an abundance of stereotyping going on in the public education system…all of which ingrains this message to brown kids…”you are [...]
Image: wordle.net There have been a lot of interesting posts in the news and in the blog world lately. Many that promote the celebration of mixed heritage and some that make us pause to consider, “What does it mean to be mixed?” This isn’t an easy question to answer and I can imagine that [...]
When I first started blogging, my hope was that my family would read this blog and understand how I feel about racism. I hoped that they might realize why it’s an important issue to me and why I find so many “little” things offensive. I started writing tips about how to deal with [...]
It’s been a while since I’ve talked about the new online magazine, but I’ve been plenty busy working on it behind the scenes. We have some amazing writers from across the blogosphere…some recognizable and others who will probably be completely new to you! I just have to say that I have been very pleasantly surprised [...]
Some of you have been wondering what I’ve been up to and I figured I would give an update about a project that will extend beyond our fabulous multicultural awareness blog carnival! The secret? I have been building a new website for a multicultural blogazine that will feature stories from many diverse voices from [...]
I haven’t told many people about it, but I’m working on a sneaky little project behind the scenes…something for all the diverse multicultural/multiracial families out there. The Multicultural Awareness Blog Carnival is a way for us to find more integrated and multicultural families to connect with and I’m excited that so many bloggers are [...]
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