Journal Assignment 2

Hey guys, sorry about the late release. Because you're hearing about it so late I'm going to extend the posting deadline until 8:00 PM this Friday. Remember to post to your blog, don't Email us!

Part 1:
In class we participated in a Salient Circle exercise (Dr. Joycelyn Landrum-Brown 1998) where we asked you to think about which lenses you use most often when trying to make sense of the world.

• First, share your overall reactions to that exercise as a way of helping you to notice how you view the world. How did it affect your view of yourself? Do you feel it was adequate and accurate?


• Next, if someone passed you on the street and didn't know you, what might they think is your primary way of looking at the world? What signals do you give off as a way of communicating your lens of how you see the world?

Part 2:
Choose ONE of the following:

1. For those of you that have comments and feedback from me, go ahead and respond to them and explore where the questions I asked take you!


2. Think about ways you would, could, or should apply the question generation techniques in your life. That is to say, times outside of dialogue where asking clarifying questions or questions that bring others into the conversation (or connect it to larger social circumstances) might be helpful. Just to name a few - relationships, discussions with friends, religious events, etc...


3. Talk about one of the articles that really interested you and connect it to what we've been talking about in class. Go free-form but make sure it fits the journal norms (perspective taking, self-reflection, critical thinking, etc...)

Readings This Week

Have at it!

Exploring Commonalities and Differences: Power and Privilege

Pincus, F.L. Discrimination comes in many forms: individual, institutional, and structural.

McIntosh, P. White privilege and male privilege: A personal account of coming to see correspondences through work in women's studies.

Fishbein, H. Peer prejudice and discrimination

Kivel, P. Retaining benefits, avoiding responsibility

Absent from March 26th Class

I want to let you all know that I will be out for our second class. I enjoyed our first class together and look forward to getting to know all of you over the next couple of weeks.

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First Journal Assignment!

Greetings all,

We hope you enjoyed our first race/ethnicity dialogue class as much as we did, and are looking forward to next week’s class as well.

For the journal assignment, due by email to us by March 16 at 5pm, we would like you to do three things.

First, for each of the following classes, indicate which of the hot topics listed you would most like to explore that week—and give that topic a score of 1—and then identify the next most interesting topic—and give your second choice a score of “2”.

Class 4:

• Racial Profiling


• Race, Culture, & the Media


• Race Relations on Campus

Cass 5:

• Race & College Admissions


• Race & Criminal Justice System Fairness


• School Indian Mascots

Class 6:

• Affirmative Action


• Immigration

Second, we would like you to write a 2-page testimonial about your racial or ethnic identity. Include in your testimonial response to the following questions:

• If someone were to ask, how would you identify yourself to describe your racial or ethnic identity? What group or groups would you say you belong to, and why?


• How has this changed for you over time? How do you think the terms you use differ from those of your parents or grandparents to describe yourself?


• What do you think influences the way you think about your own racial and ethnic identity? (For this last question, review the Cycle of Socialization article by Harro for ideas.)

Third, go to http://www.blogger.com/start develop a blog for our class. Add Jeff and I to have access to read your blogs.

First week's readings

Here are the first week's readings - work on them over break! I bet you'll find them helpful in being a participant during dialogue next class.

Class 2: Exploring Identities; Exploring Stereotypes

Bidol, P. Interactive communication.

McCormick, D. W. Listening with empathy: Taking the other person’s perspective.

Tatum, B. D. The complexity of identity: “Who am I?”

Martinez, E. Seeing more than Black and White.”

Harro, B. The cycle of socialization. 

Welcome!

Welcome to the EOL 199 Race and Ethnicity Intergroup Dialogue Blog. This blog will function as a course resource and learning tool for the semester. The blog will fulfill several functions:

1. Announcements and general class information


2. Weekly journal question assignments


3. Eventually an intermediary step to employing dialogic technique outside of our classroom


4. Collaboration, community building, and resource linking

The course syllabus and blog setup instructions are available here for download.

2007 Demographics

For reference, the 2007 demographics report from our Division of Management Information.