Home Ownership Rates by Race and Ethnicity– Historical Legacies

Educational Achievement by Income and Race 2010

Who is “self-identified” Black? What does it mean to be classified as black today?

Light Skinned African American Women are Preferred over Dark Skinned as Beautiful Beyonce Tyra Banks Nicki Minaj

Modern Day Male Minstrels and Sambos 50 cent Flav-O-Flav Snoop Dogg Denis Rodman Mike Tyson

Barak Obama represented as a monkey throughout the campaign and even during the past 100 days

Representation of Obama as a Shoe Shine Boy with a White Woman– Congers up fears of black men breaking the Ethnosexual boundaries and servitude

Raising the Consciousness of Students to Modern Racism, Sexism, Classism, Homophobia Getting Students to become more conscious of their own lives and privileges growing up and currently. We don’t all come to the academy equally, we don’t all have the same social networks, we don’t have the same histories, we don’t have the same abilities— we don’t have the same cultural or social capital. Much of what we have is shaped by history and the circumstances of the ethnic group, gender or social class we were born into. How do we get students to begin to address their own privileges and oppressions? Use the things they are watching and experiencing in life and you get them to re- think them.– using the critical lens of the media Get the students to do the research themselves and to access the data. Expose the students to different forms of the media and popular culture and get them to deconstruct the gendered or racialized messages.

Teaching Resources to Get Students to think about Modern Racism Websites News Clips Cartoons Television Programs Magazines

Appropriate Readings & Youtube Videos (TED Series) Appropriate Readings—Peggy McIntosh, Tim Wise, Robert Moore, Mary Waters Use of Key video resources: Tim Wise, bell hooks, Chamanda Adichie, Sam Richards (Empathy),

Teaching DVD’s that help to Raise Consciousness Ethnic Notions, Race the Power of an Illusion, bell hooks Cultural Criticisms & Transformations

Social Media as a tool for students to tell their story Social Media can be used as a way to get students to tell their story about race, gender, sexuality or class issues. Getting Students to build their own Social Media with a message they want to convey. This is an essay that may be referred to as a “mash up” including music, text and images to tell a story Winter Term: Modern Racism in Popular Culture 2011 Spring Dominance and Trauma: Aikido for the Soul