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Examining Prejudice and Racism: Resources for the High School Classroom

Resources for talking about, reflecting on, and acting against prejudice. Includes interactive quizzes for conscious/unconcious bias, interviews, historical primary source documents,

Date Added to MERLOT:: June 18, 2020
Created by:: Loreen Azevedo
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Supporting Students of Color and Battling Racism | Advancement Courses (Workshop and Training Material)

Resources include lesson plans, videos, surveys, teaching strategies and more. Strategies from Teaching Race: Pedagogy... More
Understanding Prejudice (Case Study)

This is a collection of free resources curated to supplement a McGraw-Hill textbook. There are interactive surveys/tests... More
ADL: Fighting Hate for Good (External link)

Anti-Defamatory League website includes education resources, links to research, strategies for taking action on numerous... More

Anti-Defamatory League website includes education resources, links to research, strategies for taking action on numerous categories and examples of hate, prejudice, and racism. This would be a good resource for asking students to take a deeper dive into the all aspects of racism (economic, social or criminal justice, etc. It is also excellent for a deeper dive into different type of hate and inequality as well as combating them.
Column: Language matters: The shift from ‘slave’ to ‘enslaved person’ may be difficult, but it’s important (External link)

Discussion of the value and attitudes toward person-centric terms such as enslaved, undocumented immigrants, etc. This... More
Why We Must Immediately Cease and Desist Referring to Enslaved People as, “Slaves” (External link)

Column on how language and terms we use can reflect unconscious bias or shape new attitudes and thinking. This would be... More
Looking into the Westside: Untold Stories of the People, 1900-1997 (Collection)

A collection of interviews and stories from Hispanic youth in Southern Tucson. It would be part of the unit that... More
Seattle Civil Rights and Labor History Project (Collection)

This curated collection includes several primary source documents of relating to racism and segregation practices in... More

This curated collection includes several primary source documents of relating to racism and segregation practices in Seattle historically and more recently. The maps, videos, and homeowner deed restrictions draw parallels between the practices and economic impact for both whites and non-whites. This source be used in two units: one on the ways that racism affects economic status and another that includes west, northwest, and southwest practices of racism that dispel the notion that it was mostly southern states where this is an issue.