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Habits of Becoming. Creating identity. Context. Picture won the Pulitzer Prize Caused national consensus around Brown vs. Board of Education
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Habits of Becoming Creating identity
Context • Picture won the Pulitzer Prize • Caused national consensus around Brown vs. Board of Education • Shows Elizabeth Eckford(black girl) walking away from Hazel Bryan (white girl cursing) at Central High in Little Rock, Arkansas after she (Elizabeth) was not allowed into the school building
Directions • Write down everything you see in the following picture • Note the people, their race, what is happening, where people are in relation to one another, how are they acting together, etc. • Describe each person’s identity as you see them in this picture • How can you tell a person’s cultural history through a picture?
Motivations • What motivation might Hazel have for her actions? • Why does Hazel feel justified in her actions? • What motivation might Elizabeth have for her actions? • Why does Elizabeth feel justified in her actions? • How do you think each would identify themselves in this situation? Why?
What do you see? What is going on here? What do you know about this situation? What makes this situation similar or dissimilar to that seen in the picture of Elizabeth Eckford? How does this incident change or adapt the identity of both the police and Dr. Gates?
Identity • How are our identities formed? • What role does race play in that process? • How might our identity be formed if we were a different race? A different gender? Gay or straight?
Survey • How many times in the past month has a person of color (if you’re white) or white person (if you’re a person of color) been in your kitchen? • What is Sammamish’s reputation? Why? • Out of all of your teachers throughout your life, how many of them were a person of color?
Homework • Describe a time when you either witnessed or were a victim of racial discrimination. • What happened? • How did it affect you? • How did it affect the way you saw yourself as either a white person or a person of color? Why? • 1.5 pages typed, double-spaced • Due Thursday