This web page is designed to assist faculty and staff who want to use "The Color of Fear" for workshops, or classes. It supplements the information presented in the Facilitator's Packet.. These websites were selected based on the following criteria:
We hope that this site will further discussions about inclusive pedagogy and community-building that are taking place all over the campus. Faculty are invited to continue the conversation on the Teacher Talk message board. message board. For user ID and password information, contact Kim Pearson. All members of the campus community are invited to post on The Color of Fear message board.
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| The Color of Fear Homepage: The Diversity Resources Network | We are members of a long-standing diversity and violence
prevention
trainer's
and practitioners community. We dedicate this site to providing free access to the most useful teaching tools, tips, exercises and theoretical essays available anywhere on the World Wide Web! We are also developing a database of cool diversity links that will feature the best of the web. (from the website) |
Partners include:
MARGO ADAIR, author of Working Inside Out, founder/director of TOOLS FOR CHANGE. PAUL KIVEL, violence prevention educator, author of Boys Will be Men, Men's Work, and co-author of young women's lives. VICTOR LEWIS, founder and Director of the CENTER for DIVERSITY LEADERSHIP, and a principal voice in The Color of Fear, one of the most potent films on race relations in decades. HUGH VASQUEZ, CO-founder/Executive Director of the TODOS Institute, one of the nation's leading diversity and alliance building training centers. |
| White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack by Peggy Mc Intosh | The original essay | Peggy McIntosh is associate director of the Wellesley College
Center for Research on Women. This essay is excerpted from Working Paper 189. White Privilege and Male Privilege: A Personal Account of Coming To See Correspondences through Work in Women's Studies (1988), by Peggy McIntosh; available for $4.00 from the Wellesley College Center for Research on Women, Wellesley MA 02181 The working paper contains a
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| The Newer White Consciousness | TCNJ's Dr. Michael Robertson introduces the concept of white
privilege
in this 1997 unbound
article. "Suddenly white Americans are
conscious of their
whiteness.
And for most whites, like my student, that whiteness is tied to a
sense of victimization...." |
The article includes links to a several related sites, including Peggy McIntosh's list of the daily effects of white privilege. However, the Peggy McIntosh listing below is more comprehensive. |
| PBS Skin Deep Home Page | SKIN DEEP is a tale of the complexities of race relations in America today, as experienced by a diverse but strikingly candid group of college students. Academy-Award nominated producer Frances Reid chronicles these young adults' attitudes and feelings about race through interviews, scenes from campus and family life, and in a weekend retreat of interracial dialogue. | Although the site is dated, it features a discussion guide, a quiz, a message board and many useful links. |
| TRANSFORMATIONS ------------------------------------------------ A Resource for Curriculum Transformation and Scholarship |
Journal published at TCNJ, sponsored by The New Jersey Project | |
| Higher Education and Reducing Prejudice: Research on Cognitive Capabilities Underlying Tolerance | "Research is beginning to offer preliminary evidence about the cognitive capabilities students need in diverse and increasingly interconnected environments." | Researchers at two Ohio universities explore the links between educational levels and tolerance. |
| New Arguments for Diversifying the Curriculum: Advancing Students' Cognitive Development | "In order to provide the highest quality education for today's students, we need to understand especially the ways in which multicultural courses support cognitive, and not just moral or social, development in students. I suggest that the actual thought practices provoked and unleashed by multicultural teaching can be seen as instantiations of deeper cognitive mechanisms." | The author,Hans Herbert Kögler, basis his argument upon developments in multicultural pedagogy, as well as developments in cognitive psychology. |
| Thin Ice: Stereotype Threat and Black College Students | "Our research bears a practical message: even though the stereotypes held by the larger society may be difficult to change, it is possible to create niches in which negative stereotypes are not felt to apply. ...[F]or the greatest portion of black students...the degree of racial trust they feel in their campus life...may be the key to their success." | This Atlantic Monthly article reports on empirical research by Stanford University social psychologist Claude Steele and his colleagues. |
| Race in Science | Documents, syllabi, bibliographies and links on a range of topics, including: eugenics, the human genome diversity project, cultural aspects of medical diagnoses, treatment and research, etc. | Compiled and edited by faculty and staff at MIT. |
| Significant Differences:The construction of knowledge, objectivity and dominance | Donna M. Hughes Women's Studies International Forum, Vol. 18, No. 4, pp. 396-406, 1995. |
Argues that, "The scientific method is a tool for the
construction and justification of dominance and exploitation in the world. It also enables the creation of replicable information and explanations of the natural and social world. Recognizing these dual functions is crucial to understanding how the scientific method is used to provide increasingly broad and in-depth understandings of the world and to explain and create stratifications within the world...." |
| Racial Legacies and Learning | Building on its national diversity initiative "American
Commitments:
Diversity, Democracy and Liberal Learning," in 1998
the Association of American Colleges and Universities
(AAC&U) launched
Racial Legacies and Learning: An American Dialogue, a national
project
to foster campus/community discussion while
addressing issues of racism and visions to "Build One America." Sponsored by the Ford Foundation and designed to support the President's Initiative on Race (PIR), the project began with a Campus Week of Dialogue on Race. Sixty-five participating institutions formed community partnerships with community leaders and civil rights groups to discuss America's racial legacies in areas ranging from urban development, school reform, and religion to race relations in corporate America. |
AAC&U Statement of Mission, 1997
The mission of the Association of American Colleges and Universities is to make the aims of liberal learning a vigorous and constant influence on institutional purpose and educational practice in higher education. |
| Network of Educators for the Americas | NECA is a Washington,
DC-based not-for-profit organization that promotes peace, justice, and human rights nationwide through critical, anti-racist, multicultural education. (From the NECA website) |
Includes links, reports and articles on racial disparities in juvenile justice, prison activism, and the racial politics of public education, among other topics. Also, there are links to a variety of alternative media sources for international human rights news. |
| Don't Believe the Hype Quiz | This quiz is based on information published in Farai Chideya's
stereotype-shattering
1995 book, Don't
Believe the Hype: Fighting
Cultural Misinformation About African-Americans (Plume
Penguin), which is now
in
its eighth printing. Using statistics, she systematically undercuts
the
argument that African-Americans are at the root of problems like
crime,
welfare and drugs.
In 1999, William Morrow published her second book, The Color of Our Future. From an Indian reservation to South Central L.A., the 99% white heartland to multi-racial Southern California, Chideya interviews and analyzes the lives of today's diverse teens and twenty-somethings. Excerpts from both books are available on the site. |
Farai Chideya is a journalist and author. In 1997,
Newsweek
named
her to its Century Club" of 100 people to watch. Chideya is the
anchor of "Pure Oxygen," a prime time show on
Oxygen,
a new women's network started by Oprah Winfrey, Gerry Laybourne and
Marcy
Carsey. From 1997-1999, Chideya was an ABC News correspondent
covering
a range of issues from youth to race to politics. In 1996 Chideya
spent
the Presidential election season as a CNN Political Analyst and was
named
to the New York Daily News' "Dream Team" of political reporters and
commentators.
(all information adapted from Chideya's website.) |
| Implicit Association Test | It is well known that people don't always 'speak their minds',
and
it is suspected
that people don't always 'know
their minds'. Understanding such
divergences
is important to scientific psychology. This web site presents a new
method that
demonstrates
public-private and conscious-unconscious divergences much more
convincingly
than
has been possible with previous methods. It also displays
the method in
a do-it-yourself
demonstration form. This new method is called the Implicit
Association
Test, or IAT for
short. |
This is a joint venture between scientists at the University of
Washington
and Yale University. The site allows participants to measure their
unconscious
attitudes with regard to race, gender, age and presidential
politics. Extensive
information is provided with regard to the scientific methods and
research
on which the tests are based.
(from the IAT website) |
| Race and Ethnicity Online | This is "the online home of the SECTION ON RACE, ETHNICITY AND POLITICS of the American Political Science Association. At this site you'll find resources for teaching and research, including directories of scholars and publishers, an e-mail discussion list, book recommendations, selected links to other websites, sample syllabi, APSA conference information, and much more. (from the website) | |
| About.com Directory of Race Relations Discussion Groups | Extensive Links on history, immigration, current events, race relations in other countries, multiculturalism, etc. | Guide: Kimberly Hohman |
| Sociology: A Brief Introduction | On this site you will find the following features:
About - a section providing more in-depth information
about these
texts and the Longman
sociology team. Chapter Guides - a section providing chapter-by-chapter summaries, learning objectives, visuals, links and practice tests. Links - key internet sites organized around the text chapters. Visuals - a section providing key figures and graphics from the text. Practice Test Questions - Multiple choice questions for each chapter. Glossary - key terms for each chapter. Beyond the Book - original articles written by Alex Thio, providing a sociological perspective on today's issues and events. |
Invaluable resource, particularly for non-sociologists, for those who want to discuss privilege systems in the classroom. This sample visual, Disparity Between Blacks and Whites , illustrates the usefulness of the site. |
| The National Hate Test Special | "Welcome to The National Hate Test Special. Here you will find 16 possible scenarios that will ask you to examine your own prejudices and think about your personal values concerning topics related to race, religion, disabilities and sexual orientation." (from the website) | This site isn't as challenging or intellectually rigorous as some of the others. However, there is real audio recording of the special which has people of different backgrounds discussing the questions on the test, as well as survey results. |
| Three decades after King, a Report Card | "Today, after considerable strides in meeting that challenge,
psychologists have discovered that the study of prejudice, rather
than getting
easier,
has become more complex. Compared with the open bigotry that still
existed
in the late 1960s, the white resistance that King mentioned now operates in subtler, even unintentional ways, scientists say. " (website) |
From the American Psychological Association newsletter on the web. |
| Densho: The Japanese-American Legacy Project | The mission of the Densho Project is to document the Japanese-American experience using state-of-the-art technology and to create educational resources as a way to expand awareness of our country's diverse history. |
The Densho Project Archive brings history into the next century by
capturing the sights, sounds, and stories of one community in a fully searchable digital archive. This "library in a computer" preserves the history of Japanese Americans in two collections: (1)Visual Histories-digitally videotaped interviews, and (2)Photographs and Documents-images of the past, rare documents, and other primary source materials. |
| African Native Americans: We are Still Here | Photo exhibit from the Newman Library at Baruch | An aspect of multiracial identity that is not often considered. |