The Quest for Religious Freedom
In this lesson, video segments from the PBS series Finding Your Roots are used to…
Identity and Intersecting Perspectives: Between the World and Me | MacArthur Fellows Program
In this lesson, students will explore how our complex identities shape our understanding and experience…
The New American Majority (Episode 1)| And She Could Be Next
In this lesson, the idea of “The New American Majority” is explored through the analysis…
Memories of a Penitent Heart | Lesson Plan: Miguel and Michael – Restoring and Reconciling Lost Histories
Combining home movies, video and written documents with artfully shot contemporary interviews and vérité footage,…
Minding the Gap | Lesson Plan
Minding the Gap is a coming of age film by Bing Liu. Starting in high school,…
12 Essential Books About Race in America
Talking about race isn’t easy. It’s personal, it’s political, it’s visceral. That these were two…
Prioritizing Empathy and Anti-Racism in Schools
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Native Americans As Slaves, Slave Owners In North
MacArthur ‘Genius’ Tiya Miles does pioneering research on the relationship between Cherokee Indians and African-Americans….
The danger of a single story
Our lives, our cultures, are composed of many overlapping stories. In this TedTalk, novelist Chimamanda…
White by Law: The Legal Construction of Race
“Whiteness pays. As White by Law shows, immigrants recognized the value of whiteness and sometimes…