Episode 1: To Stir the Pot or Keep the Peace
Two graduate students discuss the process of evaluating the spaces that they find themselves in before deciding to stir the pot or keep the peace.
"mixed" race identity
Advice to Teachers
Students of color give advice to teachers about what it looks like to address racism in the classroom and where to ask questions about race if they don’t know how to address it.
Standing Up to Other People
Interviewer asks a student what they think it looks like for white teachers to be an ally for students of color.
Cultural Identity in Chinese Immersion School
Two students and a parent discuss experiences in a Chinese immersion school and what they wished the teachers would do differently.
Unlearning
White father describes how a school’s problematic approach to teaching history led him and his wife to decide to homeschool their student until they found a better school.
Cultural Identity and Holidays
Mother talks with her children about how they celebrate cultural identity and holidays in their mixed household.
Grace vs. Race
Two students describe their identities and how they respond to people who ask them what their race is.
I Like Being Different, I Always Am Who I Am
Insightful young student describes how she approaches her cultural identity and the way it impacts (or doesn’t) how people might see her.
Talking Race at Home
Students tell interviewers where they talk about race and how they talk about it between home and school.
Addressing Racial Tension
Student, teachers, and parents describe the role their racial and cultural identity play in their interactions and how they navigate addressing racial tension in a school setting.
Discipline and Differential Treatment
Parents and students reflect on their experiences with differential treatment and discipline in school.
Diversity Committees and Affinity Groups: Who Benefits from These Spaces
UW Communications · Diversity Committees And Affinty Groups, Who Benefits From These Spaces
Teaching Identity
Mixed race students discuss what they learn in school and the messages about identity they receive based on who and what teachers choose to prioritize in their lessons.
Singling Out Mixed Kids
Mixed race students describe their experiences in school being the singled out and bearing the weight of expectations to speak on racial or cultural topics because of their “mixed-ness.”
Which Box Do I Check?
Mixed race students describe their experiences navigating their mixed identity in a world that constantly wants to figure them out or force them to choose only one.