Romaine Washington
  • Home
  • Books & Bio
    • SCHEDULE &...
  • Lesson Units
    • POETRY TERMS
    • SOCIAL JUSTICE >
      • Social Justice Lessons >
        • Standards
        • Bias
        • Racism >
          • White Supremacy
        • Poetry Analysis >
          • SJ Movies
          • SJ BOOKS
        • Empowerment >
          • Debates
          • Ted Talk
    • MENTAL HEALTH >
      • Mental Health Lessons >
        • Awareness
        • Mindfulness
        • stigma
        • Suicide Prevention
        • Poetry Analysis
        • MH Research
    • LOOKISM >
      • Look Lessons >
        • Perception
        • Look Bias
        • Ugliness?
        • Beauty
        • Hair
        • Poetry Analysis
        • Look Research
    • BOUNDARIES >
      • Boundary Lessons >
        • Poetry Analysis
        • Crossing Boundaries
        • Healthy
  • Contact
  • Home
  • Books & Bio
    • SCHEDULE &...
  • Lesson Units
    • POETRY TERMS
    • SOCIAL JUSTICE >
      • Social Justice Lessons >
        • Standards
        • Bias
        • Racism >
          • White Supremacy
        • Poetry Analysis >
          • SJ Movies
          • SJ BOOKS
        • Empowerment >
          • Debates
          • Ted Talk
    • MENTAL HEALTH >
      • Mental Health Lessons >
        • Awareness
        • Mindfulness
        • stigma
        • Suicide Prevention
        • Poetry Analysis
        • MH Research
    • LOOKISM >
      • Look Lessons >
        • Perception
        • Look Bias
        • Ugliness?
        • Beauty
        • Hair
        • Poetry Analysis
        • Look Research
    • BOUNDARIES >
      • Boundary Lessons >
        • Poetry Analysis
        • Crossing Boundaries
        • Healthy
  • Contact

Social Justice: Bias


Picture
Click n good for TedEd 4:13
Everything that is faced
can be changed,
but nothing can be changed
​until it is faced.


― James Baldwin

Picture
Click on book for video 3:34

The assignments that have activities are in red.

What is Implicit Bias?   
 
Research on “implicit bias” suggests that people can act on the basis of prejudice and stereotypes without intending to do so. - Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy

​Instructions:  Under the first button there is a worksheet where you can take notes. Under the second button there are instructions for taking the Harvard Implicit Bias Test. 

Take the test for the following topics:

1. Race, 2. Skin Tone, 3. Weapons 

​
Discuss your results with your fellow classmates or write a reflection responding to some of the questions on the Bias Worksheet. 
1. Worksheet
2. bias test
We were unarmed,
but we knew that
blackness armed us,
even though we had no guns.
​

― Ibram X. Kendi, How to be an Antiracist
3. Podcast
Listen to the podcast: The Air we Breathe ​ (38 min.)

Questions for Discussion:
  • Do you agree or disagree with Shankar Vendantam and Mahzarin Banaji?
  •  As they discuss the incident compare it to your results from the Implicit Bias Test? 
  • What are other ways one might draw comparisons in behavior?
  • Does this person's actions indicate that they are racist or is something else at work?
4. Police
  • To continue the discussion on bias, watch the brief video (2 min:32) .
  • Is the person who called the police a racist or exhibiting racist behavior?
  • How does the man win the video feel?
  • ​How do you think he "should" interpret the events? 
  • ​Consider and brainstorm on ways we can work towards combating our biases so we can more clearly respond to situations?

Picture
The Whitest Towns in America
Watch the TedX Video  (13:00)
​Complete the worksheet  as you watch the video.
Afterwards discuss the comments in light of what we have previously discussed.

​Do you agree or disagree with the presenter's conclusions? 
5. Worksheet
6. Whitest Towns


Racism Lessons
White Supremacy Lessons


SJ Lessons
Photo credit:wallpaperflare.com
For speaking engagements and writing workshops please fill out the contact form.