Home Ownership Rates by Race and Ethnicity– Historical
Legacies
Educational Achievement by Income and Race 2010
Who is “self-identified” Black? What does it mean to be
classified as black today?
Light Skinned African American Women are
Preferred over Dark Skinned as Beautiful
Beyonce
Tyra Banks
Nicki Minaj
Modern Day Male Minstrels and Sambos
Flav-O-Flav
Denis Rodman
Snoop Dogg
50 cent
Mike Tyson
Barak Obama represented as a monkey throughout the
campaign and even during the past 100 days
Representation of Obama as a Shoe Shine Boy with a White Woman–
Congers up fears of black men breaking the Ethnosexual boundaries
and servitude
Raising the Consciousness of Students to Modern
Racism, Sexism, Classism, Homophobia
Getting Students to become more conscious of their own lives and privileges growing
up and currently. We don’t all come to the academy equally, we don’t all have the
same social networks, we don’t have the same histories, we don’t have the same
abilities— we don’t have the same cultural or social capital. Much of what we have is
shaped by history and the circumstances of the ethnic group, gender or social class
we were born into.
How do we get students to begin to address their own privileges and oppressions?
Use the things they are watching and experiencing in life and you get them to rethink them.– using the critical lens of the media
Get the students to do the research themselves and to access the data.
Expose the students to different forms of the media and popular culture and get them
to deconstruct the gendered or racialized messages.
Teaching Resources to Get Students to think
about Modern Racism
Websites
News Clips
Cartoons
Television Programs
Magazines
Appropriate Readings & Youtube Videos (TED Series)
Appropriate Readings—Peggy McIntosh, Tim Wise, Robert Moore, Mary Waters
Use of Key video resources: Tim Wise, bell hooks, Chamanda Adichie, Sam
Richards (Empathy),
Teaching DVD’s that help to Raise Consciousness
Ethnic Notions, Race the Power of an Illusion, bell hooks
Cultural Criticisms & Transformations
Social Media as a tool for students to tell
their story
Social Media can be used as a way to get students to tell their story about race,
gender, sexuality or class issues.
Getting Students to build their own Social Media with a message they want to
convey.
This is an essay that may be referred to as a “mash up” including music, text and
images to tell a story.
2011 Winter Term: Modern Racism in Popular Culture
2011 Spring Dominance and Trauma: Aikido for the Soul