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18.2.2: Activities

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    Discussion Prompt: Race Preference Test

    Go to Harvard’s Project Implicit website. (https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/) Take the Race or Skin-Tone IAT. Next, read this article from the Washington Post about the assessment and patterns in scores across the United States.

    What were your IAT results? Were you surprised? How did this make you feel? Do you think it is an accurate assessment of your racial preferences? Provide some examples from your background that you think either support or negate your score. How do you score in comparison to others in Georgia? Overall, what are your impressions of this assessment?

    *Note that preferences are just that, preferences, and not a summation of personal prejudice.

    Discussion Prompt: White Privilege Response

    For this module, you should have read both Beverly Tatum’s article, ‘Defining Racism’, and Peggy MacIntosh’s, ‘White Privilege’. You should also have listened to the ‘This American Life’ episode, “512: House Rules”, and completed the Privilege Scavenger Hunt.

    Post the top three things you think you have learned from your exploration of privilege. Which aspects of privilege stood out the most to you from the different manifestations you have discovered? What can you do to help reverse some of these inequalities moving forward?

    Written Response: Reflection Paper Topics

    Go to Harvard’s Project Implicit website. (https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/) Take the Race or Skin-Tone IAT. Next, read this article from the Washington Post about the assessment and patterns in scores across the United States.

    What were your IAT results? Were you surprised? How did this make you feel? Do you think it is an accurate assessment of your racial preferences? Provide some examples from your background that you think either support or negate your score. How do you score in comparison to others in Georgia? Overall, what are your impressions of this assessment?

    *Note that preferences are just that, preferences, and not a summation of personal prejudice.

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