How to Raise an Anti-Racist Kid – The New York Times

Conversations about race had a huge impact on Winona Guo, now an undergraduate at Harvard, and Priya Vulchi, who attends Princeton. They remember the subtle and not so subtle ways racism influenced their own views of themselves as children and made them feel inferior. Ms. Vulchi, who is Indian-American, was told to bleach her skin. Ms. Guo remembers calling for a play date with a classmate who responded, I don t play with Chinese girls.

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She won’t find many Chinese babies at Harvard, at least not among the student body. I do hope she’s ok; Harvard can be a tough introduction to being a master of the universe. Later in the article there’s a quote from some dean at Stanford. As my son said, “must be a tough gig, being a dean at Stanford.”