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Reflect: Socratic Seminar--how did it go?

Vocabulary for discussing race:

Scientists actually cannot define the broad racial categories we often relate to attributes such as skin color, facial features, hair color and texture, and other physical aspects of human beings. Yet despite the scientific repudiation of race as a category, we stil describe and classify others according to how we perceive them racially. Hence, although our physical differences may be biologically insignificant, race profoundly affects people’s lives and life chances.
 * Race **

It is very important to learn the difference between five different aspects of racism: prejudice, discrimination, internalized oppression, White privilege, and institutionalized oppression.
 * Racism **

about others without sufficient evidence to substantiate the opinions
 * Prejudice ** is the generalized judgments, attitudes, thoughts and feelings we make or have

which we belong. Just because someone is a person of color does not mean that she or he is exempt from breathing the “air” of White superiority that circulates in the culture. Internalized oppression, like prejudice, can be combated through reflection and education.
 * Internalized oppression ** is when we unconsciously believe stereotypes about a group to

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">or stop people from being seen and treated as individuals. An employer choosing a <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">particular candidate, a new parent choosing a pre­school, or teenager choosing with <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">whom to talk at a party each might discriminate based on race.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Discrimination **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> involves actions based on prejudice. Discrimination can deny opportunity

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">example, as a White person—particularly as a middle class female White— <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">I am not likely to be followed around in a store by a security guard. White students often <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">assume that they do not have a race or ethnicity; the freedom to ignore their race is also a <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">White privilege.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">White privilege **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> is the system of advantages that Whites get just by being White. For

<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">people perceived to be in a certain group. If over and over again in society people of that race are given fewer educational resources and less experienced teachers, denied access to certain jobs or decent health care, made to pay higher interest rates when they buy a car or a house, or are discriminated against in the laws of the land, it is institutionalized oppression.
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Institutionalized Oppression **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> is the systematic and systemic discrimination against


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Acknowledge ****<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">that it can be difficult to face the ways we have learned to be racist or to realize **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">how racist the world is. Guilt and anger are important markers. They alert us to the need **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">to find new ways to respond to our own racism and internalized oppression so that we can **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">help others do the same. **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Watch: Cheerios commercial: Kids React **
 * [|__https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VifdBFp5pnw__] **


 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Discussion Question: **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">How does age and environment shape our ideas about race? **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Do you remember becoming aware of race? If so, what made you aware? At what age? **
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 24px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Why is it important to talk about race at all ages? **

HW: **<span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Read: “First Encounter” of “Recitatif” by Toni Morrison, 1983 (first 4 pages or so) ** https://docs.google.com/document/d/1jsSBhebr-AXWUgUeK7VfUYIqugNBTvzXYmNjl0wBoK0/edit?usp=sharing
 * <span style="background-color: transparent; color: #000000; font-family: Arial; font-size: 15px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">You will most likely have many questions--come with them! **