Webinar: Racism Is A Virus Too (Recorded June 2, 2020)
Videos used or mentioned in the webinar:
NYTimes: Chinese Student Shares Rise in Anti-Chinese and Anti-Asian Racism and Xenophobia at her School
What Kind of Asian Are You: Using Satire to Illuminate Assumptions and Stereotypes
It is important, before sharing this video with the class, to help them understand the purpose of satire: to use exaggeration and humor to ridicule harmful behavior.
Facing History Lesson Plan: https://www.facinghistory.org/resource-library/my-part-story-exploring-identity-united-states/identity-and-labels
Excerpt from Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’s “The Other America” speech in which he said, “Riots are the language of the unheard.”
HHRC’s Interview with Vietnamese Mainer Phuc Tran, Author of “Sigh, Gone: A Misfit’s Memoir of Great Books, Punk Rock, and the Fight to Fit In”
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