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Mapping Social Identity Timeline Activity

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.

  • Social Identities and Systems of Oppression
  • Educators

"An Act of Hate Toward an African American Family in Manhattan Beach Brings History Full Circle"

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.

  • Community Building

Power & Privilege Definitions

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

  • Social Identities and Systems of Oppression

"Community: The Structure of Belonging"

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.

  • Community Building
  • Persons Committed to Equity

"Teaching for Diversity and Social Justice"

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

  • Social Identities and Systems of Oppression
  • Educators

"10 Powerful Community-Building Ideas"

Strategies for ensuring that students in every grade feel like they’re part of the classroom community. By Emelina Mineroby, Edutopia.

  • Community Building
  • Educators

"Gratitude and Well-Being: A Review and Theoretical Integration"

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.

  • Community Building
  • Educators

"White Supremacy Culture"

This is a list of characteristics of white supremacy culture that show up in our organizations. Culture is powerful precisely because it is so present and at the
same time so very difficult to name or identify. The characteristics listed below are damaging because they are used as norms and standards without being pro-actively named or chosen by the group. By Tema Okun, for dRworks.

  • Whiteness
  • Persons Committed to Equity

"Understanding Whiteness"

To combat racism today, it is necessary to understand the history of the ideology of "race" in order to challenge whiteness as the foundation of racial categories and racism. Source: Alberta Civil Liberties Research Centre, University of Calgary.

  • Whiteness
  • Persons Committed to Equity

"The Invisible Whiteness of Being: Whiteness, White Supremacy, White Privilege, and Racism"

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.

  • Whiteness
  • Persons Committed to Equity
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