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Analogies of Privilege/Precarity
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Description: This activity begins with McIntosh’s “Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack” and extends conversations around privilege to help students gain a deeper understanding of the concept.
Keywords: Privilege/Precarity
Connected Reading: McIntosh, “Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack”

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Antiracism
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Description: This activity introduces students to the concept of antiracism and helps them imagine what antiracism looks like in practice.
Keywords: Speaking Up/Allyship, Privilege/Precarity

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Assembling Criminal Risk Algorithms
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Description: This activity introduces students to the variables used in algorithms that determine sentence length, probation, and parole. Students are asked to create their own algorithms while avoiding systemic bias.
Keywords: Criminal Justice

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Colorism and Skinclusion
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Description:This activity explore the connection between skin tone and implicit biases which support racist systems.
Keywords: Intersectionality, Privilege/Precarity
Connected Video: “How Colorism Shapes Our Standards of Beauty”

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Examining One’s Own Racial Identity
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Description: In this activity students explore the ways they define their own race and consider the aspects of their racial identity that they notice the most.
Keywords: Privilege/Precarity, Intersectionality

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Otherness, Othering, and the Danger of Sharing a Single Story
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Description: This activity introduces students to the concept of othering and explores the ways we use others lives to further our own needs and ideas.
Keywords: Speaking Up/Allyship, Privilege/Precarity

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Reparations
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Description: This activity explore the concept of reparations and challenges students to think about the wealth gap in the United States.
Keywords: Capitalism, Legacy of Slavery
Connected Reading: Coates, “The Case for Reparations”

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Social Systems and the “Monopoly” Analogy
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Description: This activity uses the frame of a monopoly to help students explore the idea of privilege and structural racism.
Keywords: Privilege/Precarity

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The Impact of Implicit Bias on Racial Understandings
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Description: In this activity students explore the role of implicit bias in American society in the context of the U.N. calling out the continued existence of racist structures.
Keywords: Privilege/Precarity, Legacy of Slavery, Criminal Justice

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There is No Hierarchy of Oppression
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Description: After listening to Audre Lorde read “There is No Hierarchy of Oppression,” students are asked to react to Lorde’s narrative.
Keywords: Intersectionality, Feminism, Legacy of Slavery

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