Please complete the following PRIOR to our class session on September 23:
1. Readings/Videos
READ the assigned articles and take notes
VIEW Peggy McIntosh & White Privilege, How Microaggressions are like Mosquitos, and Black Customer Racially Profiled
2. Blackboard Journal #2
Go to Blackboard to the Journal link and post to the 'How Privileged Are You?' journal.
3. Prepare for Quiz (RAT#3)
The 5-question multiple-choice quiz will be on the assigned readings and videos.
4. Submit The House We Live In Paper on Blackboard by Saturday, September 28
Spot the Microaggression…
Match up each statement with possible interpretations listed below it. You may connect some statements with more than one interpretation. If you can, try to come up with a more neutral statement.
“You are a credit to your race.”
[White Professor to Latina student during class] “What do Latinas think about this situation?”
[To a woman with a headscarf] “What are you hiding in there?” / [Store manager to employees] “Keep an eye on the Black shoppers.”
“Can I touch your hair? You look so exotic.”
“I don’t see color.” / “The only race is the human race.”
[To an Asian student] “Can you help me with my math homework?”
[A White woman to a Black woman] “As a woman, I understand what you experience as a minority.”
“ANYONE can succeed if you try hard enough.”
“Why are all Black women so loud?”
“You don’t even seem Black.”
In this session students will continue to reflect on their own intersecting identities to explore the concepts of privilege and oppression. Students will explore the way in which microaggressions are tied to implicit bias.
Black Customer Racially Profiled In High End Store | What Would You Do?
1. Complete this self-test to see how privileged you are. Remember that privilege comes in different forms. Take the test and find out! Click on the "How Privileged Are You SELF-TEST" link below to take the test.
How Privileged Are You SELF-TEST
(in case the link doesn’t work, go to: https://www.buzzfeed.com/regajha/how-privileged-are-you
2. After you complete the self-test and read about your resulting level of privilege, go to the next link below and watch the video.
3. Reflect on the video and your test results.