Journal Reflections
Explore and express your personal reactions, emotions and thoughts about The topics listed , current events, and your own experience. To see the connections between your lived experience and racism.
- 1 page single-spaced
- discuss what you are thinking about race and racism during a given week. This could be a reflection on a recent incident in the news, a conversation or experience youve had, or the readings listed.
- Try to focus on one or two specific points or examples related to race and racism.
- Briefly discuss and describe, both in terms of content, but also your reaction, intellectually and emotionally. Why are you discussing this example?
- What does your example tell us about racism?
- What is one step you (and/or others) can take to dismantle racism in response to your example?
- Link your thoughts to at least one reading.
Journal 1 – Readings/Articles Before Sept. 12
- Zinn, The Optimism of Uncertainty, pp. 636-642
- Lorde, The Transformation of Silence into Action, pp. 279-282
Journal 2 – Readings/Articles Before Sept 26
Topics
– History Racism then and now
– Frameworks for Justice
- On the Backs of Blacks
- Young, The Five Faces of Oppression, pp. 539-560
- Women of Color Intersectionality
Journal 3 – Reading/Articles Before Oct.17
Topics
– Racism in housing and wealth
– Racism in Housing and home ownership
– Racism in education
- Housing Segregation and Redlining in America (6 min video)
- The Roots of the Widening Racial Wealth Gap
- The Color of Law, Chs. 7-12
- School to Prison Pipeline, Introduction, Chs. 1-4
Journal 4 – Readings/Articles Before Oct. 31
Topics
– Racism in Eduacation
– Racism in policing Laws and Voting
– Policing and social control
- *School to Prison Pipeline, Chs. 5-7
- Civilize Them With a Stick
- The Late Homecomer, Ch. 8, Before the Babies, pp. 131-151
- Dear America, pp. 17-34
- The End of Policing, Chs. 1-5
- Implicit Bias and police shootings
- o https://www.npr.org/transcripts/876073130
Journal 5 & 6 – Readings/Articles Before Dec. 1 Use any article of your choice listed Above or topics related to below
Topics
– Voting and Democracy
– Social Movements and change
– Social change and action
- The End of Policing, Chs. 6-10
- Defund the Police debate
- Girl Gone Missing (excerpt)
- BLM, Chs. 5-8
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