March is Women's History Month - Celebrate and Appreciate

Good Morning Miss Toliver

One Tribe - Black Eyed Peas

Just Imagine

Trailer from Bill Duke's documentary on dark skinned Black women

Check out the  website http://officialdarkgirlsmovie.com/

The Power of One Voice #2

Lessons on Families fromTeaching Tolerance

My Family Rocks!http://www.tolerance.org/activity/my-family-rocks

Keywords:
Diversity and inclusion, stereotypes and bias,race and ethnicity
Level:
Pre K to K
Grades 1 to 2
Grades 3 to 5
Subject:
Reading and Language Arts
Social Studies
Science and Health
ELL / ESL

This lesson is the first in the series “Family Tapestry.” One goal of these lessons is to help students recognize and accept differences among themselves and within the larger community. Another is to recognize how each student’s unique family contributes to a richer society. As students begin to understand themselves better, learning opportunities will likely emerge to explore biases and prejudices. In this introductory lesson, students explore the definition of family, learn about different kinds of family structures and explore what makes their own family unique.

Color Blindness and Other Issues of Racism

Colorblindness
Color Blind or Just Plain Blind? http://academic.udayton.edu/race/01race/racism10.htm

 

This article discusses how racism has mutated to partially hide itself from view—perhaps not from the view of those who experience its effects—but certainly from the view of those who practice what has come to be called “aversive racism.”

 

Racism study finds people indifferent to slurs, overt bias http://forum.revhh.org/index.php?topic=3038.0;wap2

 

Blatant racism not censured or shunned in study. Despite what they think they would do, people are remarkably blase when actually confronted with blatant racism, a new study shows. Canadian researchers who tested people's reactions to anti-black comments found a surprisingly high tolerance for racial slurs -- including "one of the most offensive words in the English language." Not only did people not get as upset as people predicted they would, the slur didn't influence their willingness to choose a white racist as a partner to solve a word puzzle. In fact, people preferred the white over the black person who was the target of the slur. The findings, published this week in the journal Science, suggest that while people think they would be very upset by a racist act, and take action, "they actually respond with indifference." "People don't really punish people who act in racist ways," says lead author Kerry Kawakami, a psychology professor at York University's faculty of health in Toronto.

Chapter 5: Perceiving Groups (Prejudice, Stereotyping and Discrimination
http://www.usu.edu/psy3510/prejudice.html
 Cool outline about groups with data, charts, and examples.

Unraveling the Knot of Privilege, Power, and Difference by Allan G. Johnson http://www.agjohnson.us/
Individuals and systems are connected to each other through a dynamic relationship. If we use it as a model for thinking about the world and ourselves, it’s easier to bring problems like racism, sexism, and ableism out into the open and talk about them. In particular, it’s easier to see the problems in relation to us, and to see ourselves in relation to them.