Section 2: Privilege and Race

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Section 2: Privilege and Race

Essential Question: Where do you fall on the racism spectrum?

Video Hook

Cultural Appropriation & Respect/Honor

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?

v=2392764637431047

What kind of Asian are you? http://youtu.be/DWynJkN5HbQ

Racism Insurance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xeukZ6RcUd8 Let’s Make a New Kind of Movie:

https://www.facebook.com/ButtonPoetry/videos/1238289972895212/

TWPS

1. Race is a useful classification system.

2. Humans can’t help but be prejudiced.

3. Discrimination is not a problem in our community.

Read:

Short Fiction Story: A Modest Proposal By: Jonathan Swif

Answer Questions on the worksheet and turn in.

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Name: ________________________________

Babies, Thomas Balmes filmmaker Ponijao Opuwo, Namibia Bayarjargal

Mayanchandmani, Mongolia

Mari

Toyko, Japan

Hattie

San Francisco, CA, USA

1. Explain how the earliest stages of humanity are at once unique and universal to us all?

2. In light of this, predict what leads to racism in a society.

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Minority Group =

Ethnicity = Race =

?

Example

Example Characteristic

Characteristic

Skim Sociology book pages 232-235 and fill out the graphic organizer

In your own words, explain how Minority Group, Race, and Ethnicity are different:

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Implicit Bias Test

https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html

Take the Implicit Bias test for Race. Print your Results and Keep until Wednesday.

If you have time before the end of class, take one of the other tests (religion, gender, age, politics…) and print that as well. We will talk about these on Wednesday.

1. What was your preference for race?

2. How did the results make you feel?

3. What other test did you take?

4. Why did you pick that one?

5. What did the results tell you?

6. How can we use Implicit Bias to guide actions and thoughts?

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A. History of Racism:

Use of Black Face throughout time:

https://youtu.be/pqlD-eZm1ck

1. How has this racist trope continued to be seen in modern America?

2. In what ways do people still do similar things and yet not understand the racism behind them?

Racism is not just a Southern thing:

https://youtu.be/W4U1ozz7nM8

1. How has racism shown up in the Western US or in Oregon?

Racist Items Museum:

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=184026362236807 1. What is the purpose behind keeping these items?

History of the Suburbs

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=10155671389567807

List the Federal policies of Redlining and how that led to the whitening of the suburbs and the continuation of wealth by Caucasian people:

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6. Short Fiction Story: The Black Ball Due today By: Ralph Ellison

Answer Questions on a separate sheet of paper and turn in.

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B. Modern Racism:

The Alt-right and “Dog Whistles”:

https://www.facebook.com/georgehtakei/videos/1630748556947928/

1. What, if anything, should be done to curtail hate speech and racism online?

The Most Racist Places in America:

1. What are the most racist states, and how was this information gathered?

2. Any faults with the data collection methods? Better ideas?

3. How did racism change over time?

Map showing diversity by neighborhood in the whole United States (by nat geo):

https://www.nationalgeographic.com/magazine/2018/10/diversity-race-ethnicity-united-states-america-interactive- map/?fbclid=IwAR0DjjXpygO6CUzaYVQEAPmqhBz34S7u3TpRghs7eF59ht1BardLP7qJeVY

1. What does Oregon look like?

2. What does our valley look like?

3. What trends do you see across the nation?

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Why white people can’t use the N word

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1674557369281354

1. What are some other terms that should be erased from cross cultural speech?

2. What have you heard in the hallways that should no longer be used?

Political Protest and Race

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1879810498763220

1. In what way is racism tied to the NFL protests?

2. How can we separate protest from patriotism?

C. Systemic Racism

https://www.facebook.com/iseeitall/videos/10153052369309755/

6 minute video – As you watch this, we will pause the film to record how each of the following factors contribute to systemic racism.

Wealth- Education- Jobs-

Incarceration- Racial Profiling- Police Brutality-

What would be a good working definition of Systemic Racism?

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Living While Black in the US:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/20/us/living-while-black-police-calls-trnd/index.html?

fbclid=IwAR0CbV6bnooB1wihswLJwH2bGYjmLeEo9uWOBWTx8zp9KKBWVq5rcpduGt0

List at least 3 systemic racist ideas that led to these calls.

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3. Things a black kid is taught that are not taught to white kids-

http://www.upworthy.com/things-a-black-kid-is-ofen-taught-not-to-do-that-his-white-friends- can-are-heartbreaking

5 minute TED talk, Clint Smith

1. What advice is Clint given by his parents and why?

2. How did this make you feel?

And then it goes mainstream…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McDeTvh9sbU

1. What kinds of discussions did your parents have with you about interacting with the police?

2. How does the U.S. improve communication between law enforcement and POC

communities?

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Skim Sociology Book 238-240 with a partner and fill in the first two columns. Noteworthy is that the term Racism only appears briefly on p. 240, and the term micro-aggressions is missing entirely.

So What’s the Difference?

Discrimination Prejudice Racism Micro-

aggression Definition

Main Idea

Example in Society

Example in Central Point

Example in your life

*** Now, finish the Racism column in the notes chart. Thanks!

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D. Racial Micro-Aggressions

Spoken Word Poetry:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57lM9fp9aNU

Mosquito Bite Analogy:

https://www.facebook.com/HappyEndingOnFusion/videos/1249275411806370/

Punk Band Post-its:

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/punk-band-defines-microaggressions_us_572207f9e4b0b49df6aa4384?

fbclid=IwAR3xFWDgJjA0_FjjZUhl9oUNvPqllayHuEj2HadyKnMh98g81QbGp43J7Ec

Make Post-its and show with this picture how people are impacted…

Hatch – Kids teach about it:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8RfwnibEd3A&t=3s

Use this video to finish the Micro-aggressions column in the previous chart.

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E. Solutions – or a Better Approach

How to Use your Privilege to Address Racism:

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=1340405089333679 1. What was the advice?

Why Do White People Feel Oppressed?:

https://www.vice.com/en_us/article/qbxzpv/white-people-told-me-why-they-feel-they- oppressed-456

1. Why is calling yourself colorblind insulting?

2. What is the better option?

Don’t Feel Guilty, BUT Don’t Feel Pride Just because You Are White:

1. What is the difference between

these ideas?

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5 Ways to Disrupt Racism https://youtu.be/Lcd4VXHTR3Y 1.

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5. Don’t be a Bystander: 6 tips for responding to racist attacks https://youtu.be/krgcbiRu0ys

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6. Expand your Circle:

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=256792851663269 Watch at 10:00 1. What does it mean to expand your circle and what are the benefits?

How to be an Ally: Copy these down

1. Don’t ask your friends — or random internet acquaintances — of color to #process everything with you.

2. If you want to reach out to your friends of color to ask about how they’re feeling, don’t force a conversation.

3. Invest your energy into having difficult conversations with white people around you- Especially your family members!

4. Amplify the work and words of the most marginalized people.

5. Intervene when you see harassment happening.

6. If you’re going to engage the country’s ongoing protests, do so responsibly.

7. Get involved for the long haul.

8. Remember to stay vigilant (and patient).

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What to do with your privilege:

https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=245336409482222

1. What practical advice does the speaker give about privilege and how to use it