This activity asks students to create a visual map of their socialization in some aspect of identity (such as race, gender, sexual orientation, etc.) through the course of their life. Students will create a timeline of their lives, noting at what ages they learned particular lessons about their identity, by whom those lessons were taught, and how those lessons were taught.

By Erin N. Winkler, Ph.D., University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee. Research clearly shows that children not only recognize race from a very young age, but also develop racial biases by ages three to five.

By Karen Jordan. Malissia Clinton was on a business trip in 2015 when she received a disturbing call from her husband, Ronald. Someone had thrown a burning car tire at their Manhattan Beach house, igniting the front door. After getting their three children to safety, Ron doused the flames with a garden hose. Repairing the scorched entryway and smoke damage cost more than $500,000, but the toll was far greater.

A conversation on hidden bias. Introduction and Howard J. Ross presentation.

List of definitions relating to power and privilege from Vanderbilt University.

Peter Block explores a way of thinking about our places that creates an opening for authentic communities to exist and details what each of us can do to make that happen. Published by Berrett-Koehler, 2009, San Francisco, Calif.

Written by Maurianne Adams, Lee Anne Bell, and Diane J. Goodman, this is the definitive sourcebook of theoretical foundations, pedagogical and design frameworks, and curricular models for social justice teaching practice. Published by Routledge, NYC, 2016

This handout is from the "Racial Healing Handbook: Practical Activities to Help You Challenge Privilege, Confront Systemic Racism, and Engage in Collective Healing" by Anneliese A. Singh, Ph.D., LPC

A new model of gratitude incorporating not only the gratitude that arises following help from others, but also a habitual focusing on and appreciating the positive aspects of life. Research into individual differences in gratitude and well-being is reviewed, including gratitude and psychopathology, personality, relationships, health, subjective and eudemonic wellbeing, and humanistically orientated functioning. By Alex M. Wood, Jeffrey J. Froh, and Adam W.A. Geraghty.

In our society, Whiteness is a default standard; the background of the figure-ground analogy from which all other groups of color are compared, contrasted, and made visible. From this color standard, racial/ethnic minorities are evaluated, judged, and often found to be lacking, inferior, deviant, or abnormal. By D.W. Sue, American Psychological Association.