Multiethnic Interracial Smith College

Dorothy Roberts, author of Shattered Bonds: The Color of Child Welfare

Black children constitute only 17 percent of the youth population in the U.S, yet make up 42 percent of all children in foster care nationwide. [pdf source download]

There are also more Native American & First Nations children being removed from families of origin today than there were at the HEIGHT of the ‘residential schools’ system.

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also, children of color receive objectively worse care in the system. Less likely to be returned home, higher number of average placements, because of rural vs. urban divide in CPS black and latin@ children in a foster placement may see a social worker as little as once a year, and parents frequently have parental rights terminated whilst trying to get their shit together simply because the social worker is too busy to see them and there is a limitation on how long a child can be placed outside of parental care without being put on an adoption track. 

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Reblogging because there’s an otherwise okay post making the rounds right now claiming Black children make up only 29% of US foster kids. That’s bullshit derived from the same source that propagates lethal “Reactive Attachment Disorder” ableism that tortures thousands of adoptees/foster kids and frequently ends in murder (Cassandra Killpack being just ONE of the fellow victims I could bring myself to post about).

Idgaf when people don’t get stats right, but if you’re gonna sound off on this epidemic of systemic removal of children of color, AT LEAST do the minimal two-click research that ensures you don’t elevate a source that advocates nothing less than ritualized child abuse. I dare you all to take just a cursory look into what happens at ATTACH and Evergreen Center…

Stagecoach Mary: groundbreaking badass gunslinger.

When Stagecoach Mary wasn’t cracking rabid wolves in the fucking face with the stock of her ten-gauge or single-handedly building schoolhouses for poor Native American girls, you could find her in the saloons of Cascade drinking men under the table like the chick from Raiders of the Lost Ark and chomping on homemade cigars so potent that hardly any gunslinger in town had the stomach to handle them. You’d think maybe some folks would have tried to fuck with her, considering that she was, you know, a black woman in a society that at the time wasn’t particularly well-known for its attitudes towards racial and gender equality, but Stagecoach Mary wasn’t the sort of badass chick that was going to let people tell her what the fuck she was going to do or how she was going to do it. At a time when non-prostitute women weren’t allowed to drink at saloons, she received special permission from the Mayor to be served at any bar in the city any time she wanted, for life. Any time some asshole messed with her, she fucked him up. Like, one time a guy called her a rude name outside a saloon, so she looked at him for a second, said nothing, then grabbed a big fucking rock out of the street and clubbed him in the skull with it repeatedly until other cowboys finally restrained her. This chick gained such a reputation for being the shit out of uppity gunslingers that didn’t show her the proper respect that the Great Falls Examiner newspaper once cited this hard-drinking, quick-tempered asskicker as having “broken more noses than any other person in Montana,” and nobody ever debated the claim.

Edmonia Lewis (Anniversary Month Rewind)

Jay’s Note: I’m always pleased to run across a pick I’d never heard of before. Sometimes I’m just in awe of who I’ve just learned about. To accomplish what Edmonia did when she did it…outstanding! :)

Originally Featured: July 15, 2012

(African American, Haitian, Native American (Ojibwe)) [American]

Known as: Famous Sculptor (First woman of African American and Native American descent to gain fame and recognition worldwide as a sculptor)

More Information: EdmoniaLewis.com, Smithsonian Magazine: The Object at Hand, Women in History: Edmonia Lewis, MyHero: Edmonia Lewis, Edmonia Lewis’ Wikipedia page

Please feel free to suggest someone as a future Daily Multiracial!

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Characters: Ciel & Alois

Tourism, Terrorism and Empire.

In both cases of stereotyping the two countries, Western imperialism renders people on both sides of the border as voiceless objects, not humans with complex narratives and histories.

Ugandan model Kiara Kabukuru in an editorial for Elle (US) in June 1994 titled ‘Field Of Dreams’ and photographed by Gilles Bensimon in Marrakech, Morocco.

This is one of my most favourite fashion editorials as rarely do we see these carefree ‘shoots involving dark-skinned black women, and whenever Western magazines shoot in foreign locations involving local subjects in the ‘shoot, they are often merely used as agent-less props which is not the case in this spread.

There’s also the inclusion of Africans of different hues in an African location, which I love. 

If you’re the first people on Earth, “cavemen”, why are you white? Why are you a redhead? Why do you have freckles? Why arE YOUR EYES GREEN? WHY IS YOUR HAIR STRAIGHT??

Cajun Mermaid by *SYoshiko

“Tired of darkness” from the country’s frequent power outages, a team of teenage girls has developed solar-powered appliances and now sells them across Yemen, writes Nafeesa Syeed for Al-Monitor:

“In Yemen, we have abundant sun,” says Reem Rashed, 16, who works in the company’s human resources section. “We need to exploit solar power because it’s a favorable, free energy and it does no damage to Yemeni society.”

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