Friday, October 15: Racial Identity continued

Starter 23:  "Defining Race"

Imagine that you apply for a copy of your birth certificate, and when you receive it you discover that it lists your “race” as something other than what you and everyone else have always considered it to be. You are white and it says you are black, or you are black and it says you are white. That is exactly what happened to Susie Guillory Phipps, a woman who had always considered herself white, as did almost everyone she met. 

Read this short essay to learn more then pick 1 of the 4 questions at the end to answer in your comp book.

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Homework AND a note on the mask-making process

1. Homework today will be to finish the Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack note-taking guide and start project journal #2!
2. As for our mask-making process- we'll take a break today until we get more plaster!  

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Duet 2 Only: Take the implicit bias test 

• Go back to the google classroom assignment we started yesterday at the end of class
• In addition to taking the one on race, take one more test on an area you'd like to assess your own bias on.
• Remember, Verna Meyers encouraged us to identify our biases and then try to overcome them by staring at images that challenge that bias AND forming authentic relationships with other people!​

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Exploring Multiple Perspectives on Race and Identity

Please follow along with this powerpoint as we explore multiple racial identities and perspectives on racial identity.  

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