As you know on Thursday May 24, we will be attending a special event featuring African-American Storytelling at the Fox Point Community Library from 4 to 5:30 in order to fulfill the education-related event stipulated on our syllabus (and mostly because it will be as fun as educational:)
However, in order to better prepare ourselves for this event, it is important that you complete the following before the event:
1- Read Kozol's "Still separate, still unequal" & Wise's selection from "Between Barack and the Hard place" (course reserve)- as distributed in class beforehand-, and Kirp's Making schools better (New York Times, May 20, 2012), which I emailed to you this week.
2- Carefully watch the four videos (as many times as you need to, take notes, reflect) I uploaded to this blog in the following order:
- Clark Doll experiment (1)
- Doll experiment (2)
These two experiments were instrumental in building the case for Brown v. Board of Ed. (1954) as advocacy for the desegregation of schools
- Revenge of the brown eyes (3)
This experiment (Class divided) was devised and performed in 1968 by a classroom teacher named Jane Elliot after the assassination of MLK. She divided her class of all white eight year old students along the color of their eyes and applied a different treatment in every classroom and playground activity favoring blue eyes on the first day, and brown eyes on the second day. Her goal was to teach them about internalized and institutional racism. This experiment was controversial and criticized. You will be watching what happens on the second day.
- Washington Journal Interview, The New Jim Crow. (4)
Interview of Michelle Alexander about her latest book which addresses the intersection of the war against drugs and the imprisonment of millions of African-American men)
3- Think about how institutional racism is anchored in our society and feeds internalized racism in the way Wise analyzes it, and what the impact might be on Black and Brown students' approach to schools - Delpit's Culture of Power - and school achievement.
Think about segregation/desegregation/re-segregation in the way Kozol/Kirp analyze it. Think about what you are observing in your tutoring site. Think about what "actual diversity" means, and how everyone (race, ethnicity, class, gender identity, sexual orientation, body ability, religion, etc) might benefit from a completely desegregated and truly diverse school environment.
4- Reflect on your blog about all of it. This assignment must be completed before attending the event Thursday May 24 at 4pm.
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