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Term 1 - Race, Power & Privilege

Independent Learning Activities

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The Global Majority

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The Good Immigrant
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White Privilege & White Fragility

White Fragility

White Fragility Journalling Prompts

Respond to all these questions in your journal

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  1. What is a privilege from the Peggy Macintosh knapsack most resonates for you or surprises you and why?

  2. In what ways do you hold white privilege? Study the list from Peggy McIntosh and reflect on your own daily life. Make a list of the different ways you hold white privilege in your personal life.

  3. What negative experiences has your white privilege protected you from throughout your life?

  4. What positive experiences has your white privilege granted you throughout your life (that people of the Global Majority generally do not have)?

  5. In what ways have you wielded your white privilege over people of the Global Majority that have done harm (whether or not you intended to do so)?

  6. What have you learned about your white privilege that makes you uncomfortable?

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Some of these reflective journaling prompts are taken from Layla Saad's book, Me And White Supremacy

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White Privilege Journalling Prompts

Respond to all these questions in your journal

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  1. Read the Peggy McIntosh article above and identify the daily effects of white privilege in your life. How many of the 26 points can you say YES to?

  2. How does your white fragility show up during conversations about race? Do you fight, freeze, fawn or flee?

  3. Describe your most visceral memory of experiencing white fragility. How old were you? Where were you? What was the conversation about? Why did it bring up white fragility in you? How do you recall feeling during and after the interaction? How do you feel about it today?

  4. How have you weaponized your fragility against people of the Global Majority through, for example, calling the authorities, crying or claiming you’re being harmed (“reverse racism” or “I’m being shamed!” or “I’m being attacked!”)?

  5. How do you feel when you hear the words white people? Do you feel uncomfortable?

  6. How has your white fragility prevented you, through fear and discomfort, from doing meaningful work around your own personal antiracism to date?

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Some of these reflective journaling prompts are taken from Layla Saad's book, Me And White Supremacy

White Superiority &
White Silence and Apathy

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