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Tuesday, August 26th

8/26/2014

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Today's Driving Questions:
1. What is racism and how does it play out in today's society?
2. How might it end?

Starter
Finish yesterday's 4 corners activity
  • Social class is more relevant than race in determining someone’s likelihood of success.
  •  Affirmative action is reverse discrimination
  • Affirmative Action refers to a policy or program providing advantages for minority groups who have experienced historical discrimination with the aim of creating a more egalitarian society through preferential access to education, employment, health care, and social welfare. Includes racial minorities, women,and folks with disabilities.

Agenda

1. Finish syllabus stuff
  • Class A:  How to submit work + essay feedback guidelines and Seminar Make-up spiel
  • Class B:  The Big Class Norms  and Q an A
  • Classroom orientation (Teatime, book checkout forms, storing binders, pushing in chairs and general tidiness)
  • Using school email accounts
  • Clarify seminar prep guidelines (extra hard copies are available)
 
2. Key Terms powerpoint (Take notes using the Racism in the U.S./Crash Seminar Prep guide)
  • First  discuss definitions in small groups based on your prior knowledge

3.  Take notes using the Racism in the U.S./Crash Seminar Prep guide as we watch the two video clips posted below (American History X and The Daily Show)


4.  Begin watching Crash (first 15 minutes)

Homework:
1. Watch the Daily Show video below and fill out the boxes on your seminar prep guide in response to it.
2. Choose one more article below and react to it: How does it answer out BIG Questions for this week?
Additional resources:
  • Discrimination in job hiring (resumes with white-sounding names v. black-sounding names and # of call backs)
  • An article from a white mother's perspective
  • twitter feeds in support of Darren Wilson-- the police officer who shot Michael Brown
  • Evidence on colorblind ideology vs. a multicultural perspective

Historical Context
  • Lynching in the early-mid 1900's
  • Black codes
  • Jim Crow Laws
  • Voting Rights Act of 1965
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