Teaching about Race and Racism Across the Disciplines

CONTENTS OF CURRICULUM UNIT 20.02.07

  1. Unit Guide
  1. Introduction:
  2. Rationale:
  3. Learning Activity #1: Understand Internalized Systems and Social Implications
  4. Learning Activity #2: Seeing the World through Race-Colored Glasses
  5. Learning Activity #2: Find Someone Challenging a System
  6. Learning Activity #4: Leading with a Social Consicousness
  7. Learning Activity #5: Finding the Counternarrative
  8. Another Way To Find Counternarratives
  9. Learning Activity #3: Contextualize the Struggle
  10. Appendix on Implementing District Standards
  11. Bibliography
  12. Notes

Seeing the World through Race-Colored Glasses: Guiding High-School Journalism Students to Report in a Race-Conscious Way to Create a Race-Conscious World

Raymond Salazar

Published September 2020

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Bibliography

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Blassingame, Haili. “When Journalists Say They're Objective - What Does That Even Mean?” 1A. WAMU 88.5 - American University Radio, June 9, 2020. https://the1a.org/segments/when-journalists-say-theyre-objective-what-does-that-even-mean/.

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Garcia-Navarro, Lulu. Twitter Post. July 19, 2020. 8:33 a.m. https://twitter.com/lourdesgnavarro/status/1284843881092218881

Harrison, Vee L. “A West Side House Party Exposes the Disconnect between Young Black Residents, Chicago Officials and the News during COVID-19 Pandemic • The TRiiBE.” The TRiiBE, May 4, 2020. https://thetriibe.com/2020/04/a-west-side-house-party-exposes-the-disconnect-between-young-black-residents-chicago-officials-and-the-news-during-covid-19-pandemic/.

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Iaonide, Paula. “Negotiating Privileged Students’ Affective Resistances: Why a Pedagogy of Emotional Engagement Is Necessary.” In Seeing Race Again, edited by Kimberlee Williams Crenshaw, 327-351. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2019.

Karp, Sarah. “Racial Issues Flare at Chicago's Elite Payton College Prep.” NPR. NPR, October 2, 2019. https://www.npr.org/local/309/2019/10/02/766379053/racial-issues-flare-at-chicago-s-elite-payton-college-prep.

Lipsitz, George. “The Sounds of Silence: How Race Neutrality Preserves White Supremacy.” Essay. In Seeing Race Again, edited by Kimberlee Williams Crenshaw, 23–51. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2019.

Payton College Prep. PAW PRINT, Chicago Public Schools, November, 2019. https://paytonpawprint.com/.

Reeves, Richard. Is America Dreaming?: Understanding Social Mobility. Brookings Institution, 2014. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t2XFh_tD2RA.

“Six Principles of News Literacy.” SchoolJournalism.org. Accessed August 16, 2020. https://www.schooljournalism.org/news-literacy-overview/.

Staff, TMZ. “1,000 People Attend Chicago House Party During Coronavirus Pandemic.” TMZ. TMZ, April 26, 2020. https://www.tmz.com/2020/04/26/1-000-people-attend-crowded-house-party-in-chicago/.

Sullivan, Margaret. “Perspective | What's a Journalist Supposed to Be Now - an Activist? A Stenographer? You're Asking the Wrong Question.” The Washington Post. WP Company, June 7, 2020. https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/media/whats-a-journalist-supposed-to-be-now--an-activist-a-stenographer-youre-asking-the-wrong-question/2020/06/06/60fdfb86-a73b-11ea-b619-3f9133bbb482_story.html.

“The Universal News Drivers.” The Universal News Drivers | Stony Brook Center for News Literacy. Accessed August 16, 2020. https://digitalresource.center/content/universal-news-drivers.

Williams Crenshaw, Kimberlé, Luke Charles Harries, Daniel Martinez HoSang, and George Lipsitz. “Introduction.” Introduction. In Seeing Race Again, 1–20. Oakland, CA: University of California Press, 2019.

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