Power & Privilege (Dominate Privilege) (see links below)

Power is the ability to get what you want. Groups and individuals both pursue and exert power. On an individual level, people find power within themselves in different ways; what makes one person feel powerful may not make someone else feel the same way.

Privilege is a special advantage or right that a person is born into or acquires during their lifetime. Privilege is not available to everyone in society. Privilege and power are closely related: Privilege often gives a person or group power over others.

(GLSEN Jump Start Guide )

• 1. *What is the difference between power & privilege (GLSEN, Activity 4.3)?

  2. *In what situations or contexts are you most aware of your privilege?

  3. *In what situations and contexts are you most aware of your own power?

  4. *How do you feel talking about power and privilege?

  5. Disrupting Inequality: Let's Talk about racism

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  7. Reflection:

  8. What Is Race? (PBS Power of Illusion)

• How many races are there? (PBS Power of Illusion)

• Race Timeline (PBS Power of Illusion)

  1. White Privilege in Schools by Ruth Anne Olson

  2. White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy McIntosh

  3. I Don't Think I'm Biased (Teaching Tolerance)

  4. Race & Black Privilege (Teaching Tolerance)

  5. Teaching Diverse Students Initiative (TDSi)

  6. Subscribe to Teaching Tolerance Magazine

  7. White Privilege, Racism (Tim Wise)

  8. 5 Things White People Can Do (Tim Wise)

  9. White Bread, hate Noise (Patricia Smith)

  10. How Studying Privilege Systems (Peggy Macintosh)

  11. Free Teaching Tolerance Materials

  12. White Privilege Conference 2013 Film Screenings

  13. White Privilege Conference 

  14. I am Not Black, You are not White (Prince Ea)

  15. Disrupting Inequality: Let's Talk about Racism

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VIDEO ENGAGEMENTS:

1. Unpaking the Invisible Knapsack (Peggy McIntosh)

2. I Am Privileged

3.  CNN Kids on Race

4. Peggy McIntosh & Serial testimony protocol

5. Race.LookDifferent.org (Jose Antonio Vargas)

• Race Talk in the Classroom (Dr. Derald Sue)

• What kind of White Person are you?

• Project Implicit  (Take a Test) 

• The Perks of White Privilege

• Teacher Inquiry Project: WP

• Supporting Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Learners in English Education

Articles & Lesson Engagements:

Juliette Hampton Morgan: A Lesson for Teachers

       Capacity for connection at Teaching Tolerance

       What kind of White Person are you?

       White Teachers at the Crossroads

        Cracking the Codes: Understanding the System of Inequality (video excerpts) 

Related Readings

Deconstructing White Privilege                 

What is race?

Culture  

Stereotypes

Straight Talk on Race: Challenging the Stereotypes in Children's Books 

(Perkins, 2009, School Library Journal)

I am Not a Mascot video (stereotype)

CNN Kids on Race

Social Justice Resources

I Don’t Think I’m Biased

  Test your hidden Bias

   Supporting Linguistically and Culturally Diverse Learners in English Education

  Debbie Reese's Blog: American Indians in Children's Literature   

  Oyate Press

  Rethinking Columbus (Bigelow & Peterson, 1998)

           Thanksgiving: A Native Perspective (Doris Seale - Oyate Press)

          Rewriting history - for the better (Constantin, 2015, Teaching Tolerance)

MORE RESOURCES

• Project Implicit 

• Cultural Differences & Stereotypes

• What kind of White Person are you? 

• The Stereotype Within

• On Racism & White Privilege

• How you teach about Immigration? 

• CODE SWITCHING resource  

• Courageous Conversations of Lee Ann Bell 

• Sociotyping & Stereotyping

• Discrimination in Restaurants  

• See also Other Resources

  • IRIS  Module 

  • Teaching Tolerance  Teaching Diverse Students Initiative (TDSI) 

  • Reading, Writing and Rising Up  (Linda Christensen)

  • Rethinking our Classrooms (Linda Christensen)

  • Teaching for Joy & Justice (Linda Christensen)