Web Exercise One:
What are people doing about racism? Start with these websites and then find your own websites. Notice the actions people in different places take for anti-racist projects.
- “Face It! You Can’t Change Society without Talking about Racism,” by Alyssa Figueroa, AlterNet, March 8, 2014. http://www.alternet.org/activism/national-peoples-action-works-address-structural-racism?page=0%2C0
- “Students See Many Slights as Racial ‘Microaggressions,’ ” by Tanzina Vega, New York Times, March 21, 2014. http://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/22/us/as-diversity-increases-slights-get-subtler-but-still-sting.html?hp&_r=0
Web Exercise Two:
Explain if the following news articles draw on a particular explanation: institutional racism, systemic racism, or structural racism:
- “The racial wealth gap: How African-Americans have been shortchanged out of the materials to build wealth” by Janelle Jones, Economic Policy Institute, February 13, 2017. http://www.epi.org/blog/the-racial-wealth-gap-how-african-americans-have-been-shortchanged-out-of-the-materials-to-build-wealth/
- “Why Education Inequality Persists—and How to Fix It,” by Valerie Strauss, The Washington Post, May 16, 2012. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/post/why-education-inequality-persists--and-how-to-fix-it/2012/05/15/gIQAXEIeSU_blog.html
- “Treating the Disease of Racism,” by Linell Smith, Johns Hopkins Medicine, February 2010. http://www.hopkinsmedicine.org/news/publications/jhm/February_2010/Treating_the_Disease_of_Racism
- “Why Racism in Health Care is Still a Problem Today by Nadra Kareem Nittle, August 2, 2016, ThoughtCo. https://www.thoughtco.com/racism-in-health-care-still-a-problem-2834530
- “What Exposes African Americans to Police Violence?” by Devon B. Carbado and Patrick Rock in Harvard Civil Rights—Civil Liberties Law Review, 2016. http://harvardcrcl.org/wp-content/uploads/2009/06/HLC104_crop.pdf
Web Exercise Three:
Get access to and play the Road to Racial Justice Educational board game by Kesa Kivel.
http://www.roadtoracialjustice.org/
Web Exercise Four:
Watch the video: “What is Systemic Racism” and identify parallels to the chapter.