Here American physician J. C. Nott attempted to illustrate geologist Louis Agassiz’s theory, which was that each region of the world was populated by separately created sets of species, both animal and human. Such ideas about human species at the time were often influenced by western racial prejudices, as the idea of multiple, separately created races could be used to justify slavery and other forms of subjugation. Darwin disagreed, firmly maintaining that all humans were descended from the same human ancestor.
Illustration from Indigenous Races of the Earth (1857), whose authors Josiah Clark Nott and George Robins Gliddon implied that "Negroes" were a creational rank between "Greeks" and chimpanzees.
Racists are Recruiting: Watch your white sons:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/opinion/sunday/white-supremacist-recruitment.html
Racists are Recruiting: Watch your white sons:
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/12/opinion/sunday/white-supremacist-recruitment.html
Unit Two: "Race" Relations: Us and Them?
A question of names: www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xvah3E1fP20
Challenge: Create a tree mural in which we attempt to answer, "Where do you come from, really?" or " What brought you to this territory?"
1. What would YOU do?
Interacial couple: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN6JTPhBb0A
2. A class divided: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/shows/divided/etc/view.html
(with assignment: see below)
http://www.cbc.ca/radio/outintheopen/out-in-the-open-on-september-15-2016-whiteness-1.3763091/after-70-years-living-as-a-black-woman-verda-byrd-discovered-she-was-white-1.3763416
A look at Jane Elliott's visit to Vancouver! http://www.straight.com/news/450961/jane-elliott-creator-blue-eyes-brown-eyes-comes-vancouver-discuss-racism-and-prejudice
"I'm your resident bitch for the day - welcome to the workshop!" -Anti-racism expert Jane Elliott
Jane Elliot TODAY: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eFQkLp5u-No
3. Racism in Canada: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvqXh83IJgM
Race as a Construct: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK3sguRWYK0
Does race exist? Are you ethnic? From the Latin, "ethos"- My people. Free Write. Then read this article and pay particular attention to the map. "Research on White Americans suggests that they do not experience their ethnicity as a definitive aspect of their social identity. Rather, they perceive it dimly and irregularly, picking and choosing among its varied strands that allow them to exercise an "ethnic option" ...ethnicity was flexible, symbolic, and voluntary for ...White respondents in ways that it was not for non-Whites." - Micheal A. Omi.
https://www.boundless.com/sociology/textbooks/boundless-sociology-textbook/race-and-ethnicity-10/race-79/social-definition-of-race-472-1350/
Some Key Terms to understand before moving forward:
Transnationality: adjective extending or operating across national boundaries.
Diaspora: a large group of people who come from a particular place and are now living in many different parts of the world ie. the connections between Israel and the Jewish diaspora.
Phenotypic: observable traits
Eugenics: It is a social philosophy advocating the improvement of human genetic traits through the promotion of higher rates of sexual reproduction for people with desired traits (positive eugenics), or reduced rates of sexual reproduction and sterilization of people with less-desired or undesired traits (negative eugenics), or ...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LiFOjopeZp0
The DNA TEST question: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/the180/least-important-election-the-case-to-stop-changing-the-clocks-and-the-problem-of-dna-as-proof-of-culture-1.3834912/sorry-that-dna-test-doesn-t-make-you-indigenous-1.3835210
Colour-Blindness: (also called race blindness) is a sociological term for the disregard of racial characteristics when selecting which individuals will participate in some activity or receive some service. In practice, color-blind operations use no racial data or profiling and make no classifications, categorizations, or distinctions based upon race. An example of this would be a college processing admissions without regard to or knowledge of the racial characteristics of applicants.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iaqOkutHSpI
Panethnic: Some ethnic groups encounter a dilemma: they may stress their national origins and ethnic identities, they are continually grouped together into a broader group. In response, some groups create a panethnic identity, defined as "bridging organisations and solidarities among subgroups of ethnic collectivities that are often seen as homogeneous by outsiders" (Lopez and Espiritu).
One Drop Rule: A person was legally Negroid, regardless of actual physical appearance, if there were any proof of African Ancestry- i.e. "one drop" of African blood.
Mixed Race or Biracial:
The struggle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ob-qmfvnQVo
What not to say: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EE5en61k-_Y
Racialization: the act or process of imbuing a person with a consciousness of race distinctions or of giving a racial character to something or making it serve racist ends.
See document below on The Changing Meaning of Race, by Michael A. Omi, The National Academies Press.
Redheads challenge our notions: http://www.upworthy.com/7-gorgeous-photos-of-redheads-that-challenge-the-way-we-see-race
White Privilege explained: http://abcnews.go.com/US/san-antonio-spurs-coach-calls-us-embarrassment-world/story?id=50098919
White privilege posters agitate: https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/canada/poster-in-b-c-schools-about-white-privilege-hits-nerve-with-some-parents-1.3835619www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/canada/poster-in-b-c-schools-about-white-privilege-hits-nerve-with-some-parents-1.3835619
How to tell someone they sound racist: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b0Ti-gkJiXc
4. Black Lives Matter movement: http://blacklivesmatter.com/
What it means: http://everydayfeminism.com/2015/11/blacklivesmatter-really-about/
Oprah in 1987: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WErjPmFulQ0
MTV's White People: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zjj1PmJcRM
Recent Timeline of Police Brutality and Race Riots in US.:
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/11568699/Police-brutality-and-racial-tensions-in-the-US-in-90-seconds.html
Race riots and lynching (WARNING): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2OytIIur3Ck
LA Race Riots 1992: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xqeQUGnxqAY
In the UK:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eHkGM6xBgPk
Police brutality in school: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sa6yp7dmVU4
Bystander effect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OSsPfbup0ac
Student experiment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB_L8rGMiZ4
What I Told My White Friends: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/what-i-said-when-my-white-friend-asked-for-my-black_us_578c0770e4b0b107a2415b89
Alternative mini unit: Genocide and the Holocaust: Graphic Novel book club.
A collaboration with the University of Victoria.
Documentary on Aushwitz: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WqtcnMZA0Hc
6. Aboriginal Context: from Local to Global: Cultural Genocide, Legacy of colonization and residential schools, a look at resiliency.
a. Wab Kinew: daily prompt.
500 years in Two Minutes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xmYu-Wppp3c
b. 8th Fire with activities
c. Highway of Tears: guest speaker and Moosehide campaign
d. What is Reconciliation? The meaning of the term, the history, what does it include, the recommendations.
e. Cultural Genocide: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/news-video/video-highlights-from-chief-jhttp://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/news-video/video-highlights-from-chief-justices-lecture-on-canadas-attempted-cultural-genocide-on-aboriginals/article24697633/
Residential Schools: Wab Kinew, Surviving the Survivor:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPX9a5r6uAQ
"Savage": http://lisajackson.ca/Savage
Discussion prompts:
Residential School system: They Came for the Children. http://www.myrobust.com/websites/trcinstitution/File/2039_T&R_eng_web%5B1%5D.pdf
What is Reconciliation?
a. Begin with Justice Murray Sinclair: http://www.trc.ca/websites/reconciliation/index.php?p=312
b.. https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/canadas-impossible-acknowledgment
c. Today's youth respond: http://www.trc.ca/websites/reconciliation/index.php?p=339www.trc.ca/websites/reconciliation/index.php?p=339
What is Cultural Appropriation? http://everydayfeminism.com/2015/06/cultural-appropriation-wrong/
Indigenous Short Films (scroll down to Headdress) http://www.cbc.ca/shortdocs/blog/through-our-eyes-indigenous-storytelling-through-short-documentaries
The do's, don'ts and I don't know's: http://apihtawikosisan.com/2012/01/the-dos-donts-maybes-i-dont-knows-of-cultural-appropriation/
The difference between appropriation and appreciation: http://everydayfeminism.com/2014/08/honor-native-americans-without-appropriating/
Stephen Harper's "Apology": https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ryC74bbrEE
Wab Kinew response: http://www.huffingtonpost.ca/wab-kinew/honour-the-apology-rally_b_3651506.html
Idle No More: Myth Busters: http://checkyourhead.org/blog/idle-no-more-myth-busters/
Highway of Tears: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xz63Vppw3gE
http://www.highwayoftears.ca/
MMIW Bead Art: https://www.cbc.ca/news/indigenous/mmiwg-art-gardiner-museum-toronto-1.5264118
Movie: Smoke Signals OR Eighth Fire.
Guest speaker: Nella Nelson or Sarah Rhude.
5. Project: "Where do you come from? No, really?" and "What brought you to this territory?"For this assignment, we will look at this question through the lens of intersectionality and begin to introduce the concept of "race." We will create a map (see Uvic's example) of our class family tree. We will also invite Sarah Rhude, Aboriginal Culture teacher, to our class to talk about territories and traditional cultural practices when one is a visitor to a another person's land. Additionally, we will investigate the current migrant and refugee crisis and reflect on our own family's travels. What brought you to this territory?
Unit Two To Do List:
1. What would YOU do? discussions
2. Define Race.
3. A class divided assignment
4. Movie
5. Guest speaker
6. Where do you come from, really? Family tree.
7. Term paper
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7. Movie: Do the Right Thing
http://www.ajdrake.com/teachers/teaching/guides/film/lee's_do_the_right_thing.htm
Pre-Viewing Chalk and Talk:
QUESTION: To what extent can you draw a connection between internalized hatred, systemic racism, hegemonic views, Non-violent resistance, Intersectionality, and empowerment.....
"Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. " Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"I think there are plenty of good people in America, but there are also plenty of bad people in America, and the bad ones are the ones who seem to have all the power and be in these positions to block things that you and I need. Because this is the situation, you and I have to preserve the right to do what is necessary to bring an end to that situation, and it doesn't mean that I advocate violence, but at the same time I am not against using violence in self-defense. I don't even call it violence when it's self-defense, I call it intelligence. " Malcolm X.
http://www.ajdrake.com/teachers/teaching/guides/film/lee's_do_the_right_thing.htm
Pre-Viewing Chalk and Talk:
QUESTION: To what extent can you draw a connection between internalized hatred, systemic racism, hegemonic views, Non-violent resistance, Intersectionality, and empowerment.....
"Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks to annihilate rather than to convert. Violence is immoral because it thrives on hatred rather than love. It destroys community and makes brotherhood impossible. It leaves society in monologue rather than dialogue. Violence ends by defeating itself. It creates bitterness in the survivors and brutality in the destroyers. " Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.
"I think there are plenty of good people in America, but there are also plenty of bad people in America, and the bad ones are the ones who seem to have all the power and be in these positions to block things that you and I need. Because this is the situation, you and I have to preserve the right to do what is necessary to bring an end to that situation, and it doesn't mean that I advocate violence, but at the same time I am not against using violence in self-defense. I don't even call it violence when it's self-defense, I call it intelligence. " Malcolm X.
Term Paper:
Look at two apparently opposing approaches to "resistance:" that of Non-Violence, by way of Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. and that of retaliation and segregation, as Malcolm X preached. Research this topic through academic, popular, AND human sources. Take adequate notes. From there, you will research an example of resistance from a movement that interests you, either historical or current. You must draw a comparison to what you have learned about resistance through your research. Your essay will be 500 words in length, follow standard 5 paragraph essay format, including a thesis statement. You must also take 3 words from our Key Terms list (found in Unit 1) and include one of each in your body paragraphs. For example, you might look at how music/art/dance have been used as forms of resistance, and include the terms diversity, equality, and discrimination. It is useful to organize your body paragraphs around your key terms. You will be marked on the proficiency of your application of the terms as well as the quality of your writing.
Look at two apparently opposing approaches to "resistance:" that of Non-Violence, by way of Gandhi and Martin Luther King Jr. and that of retaliation and segregation, as Malcolm X preached. Research this topic through academic, popular, AND human sources. Take adequate notes. From there, you will research an example of resistance from a movement that interests you, either historical or current. You must draw a comparison to what you have learned about resistance through your research. Your essay will be 500 words in length, follow standard 5 paragraph essay format, including a thesis statement. You must also take 3 words from our Key Terms list (found in Unit 1) and include one of each in your body paragraphs. For example, you might look at how music/art/dance have been used as forms of resistance, and include the terms diversity, equality, and discrimination. It is useful to organize your body paragraphs around your key terms. You will be marked on the proficiency of your application of the terms as well as the quality of your writing.