Syllabus
What is the title of the course?
Values and agreements to abide by for our community to build the culture we want.
What is social justice?
Own definition can work here.
Bonus 500 points: What is the cycle of socialization? What is the cycle of liberation?
Thandeka
Who are the main 3 authors of the book?
Colin Kapernick, Robin Kelly, Keeanga Yahmatta-Taylor
Bonus 100: Name as many other authors featured in the book for additional points.
When are the instructor's office hours?
Biweekly Thursday 1-3PM
Bonus 100 points: What are 2 other ways to have office hours?
What is our classroom agreement on attendance?
Notify the instructor a head of time, and send an email.
Define liberation.
The freedom from oppression.
What is the main argument of the book?
"I am interested in the way in which the Euro-American child is socialized into a system of values that holds in contempt differences from the white community's ideals. It is this focus on difference that I want to emphasize because when this difference is denied, we find an injury to one's core sense of self, an attack against the child by members of its own community because the child is not yet white."
What is Black studies? How was Black studies created?
Similar to American Studies, African American/Black studies is an interdisciplinary field (history, culture, economics, politics, sociology, etc) that studies the people of African descent.
It was created by Black students informed by the Black freedom movements (civil rights/black power) to establish the teaching of African American history on college campuses.
What are the 3 best ways to get in contact with the instructor?
2. Macalester Email
3. If urgent, call using Google #
What do we mean when we say "accept and expect non-closure"?
Not everything will be resolved and that is okay. Lifelong learning and discovery.
What are the 3 forms of oppression?
Internalized
Interpersonal
Institutional
Bonus 100: Define the terms
What strategies are used to misinform working-class Euro-Americans about race relations?
Classism: "Racial strategies devised to hide and thereby promote to protect economic class interests [of the elite]"
Racism: "Racial strategies devised to hide feelings of racial shame either by diverting attention to the supposed racial flaws in others or by calling attention to oneself as racially superior [to those enslaved/free blacks]"
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What are reparations?
Measures to address historical harm that impacted a community, particularly to redress slavery and racial oppression of those who are descendants of those enslaved.
What are the assignments for the class?
Assignment 2: Reflection Essays from each unit
Assignment 3: Group Visual Essay/Slide Show
Name 4 community agreements.
E.g. Have fun, speak your truth, experience discomfort, and advocate for yourself as a learner, everyone contributes in their own way.....
What are ways of making change?
services, self-help, education, advocacy, community organizing
What is Thandeka's argument about "wages for whiteness" vs "wages of whiteness"?
"Costs, as we have seen in the previous chapters, have included ethnic conflicts, class exploitation, police intimidation, humiliation by teachers, child abuse, lost self-esteem, and a general feeling of self-contempt. I call these costs the wages for whiteness."
Wages of whiteness form of white privilege. WEB Dubois shared they could get access to "public functions, public parks, and the best schools, jobs as policemen, the right to sit on juries, voting rights..[flattery]."
Summarize 2 chapters from Part 2.
Answer varies.
Bonus 100: Why is the Combahee River Collective statement important?
What is our typical class structure moving forward for class?
1. Reading Group TQE
2. Student Lead Discussion
3. Break
4. Class Time led by Instructor
5. Writing Time/Embedded Office Hours
What is language liberation?
The left - radical egalitarianism, disillusioned liberal, Marxists
Black feminist and LGBTQIA - Intersectionality
Black nationalism
Black conservatism
What is race and ethnicity?
From Crash Course Video or Thandeka
Race. - A social construction that is used to categorize people who share biological traits that a society thinks are important e.g. White = origins from Europe, the Middle East or Northern Africa; Black/African American, Native American, Asian, Hawaiian/Pacific Islander
Ethnicity - socially constructed category based on cultural traits (language, tradition, religion) that a society finds important rather than strictly biological traits. e.g. Irish, Hispanic
What is critical race theory? How is the right weaponizing "critical race theory" to get rid of AP African American history? What can we do to resist?
Politicians are connecting talking about anything related to African American history to critical race theory to ban teaching it in fear of it radicalizing students or making white students feel shame.
Read, learn, organize, build coalitions for Community organizing, teach ins, book clubs, film watch parties, lobbying at school boards and state agencies, freedom schools, participate in social movements