In this lesson, students will learn about how photographer Dorothea Lange used her privilege and access to incarcerated Japanese Americans to document human rights abuses. Students will engage in a role-playing activity that explores targeting and discrimination. Students will then reflect on this experience and connect it to the present. What are we currently doing in reaction to the detention camps at the southwest border? Essential Questions: ● How do you respond when you witness oppression? ● How is evidence created of abuses of power and how does it inform a historical narrative? ● How do white artists use their privilege to expose societal wrongs? C3 Alignment This lesson supports the College, Career, and Civic Life (C3) Framework: ● D2.His.2.9-12. Analyze change and continuity in historical eras. ● D4.7.9-12. Assess options for individual and collective action to address local, regional, and global problems by engaging in self-reflection, strategy identification, and complex causal reasoning. The Fred T. Korematsu Institute educates to advance racial equity, social justice, and human rights for all. This project was funded, in part, by a grant from the U.S. Department of the Interior, National Park Service, Japanese American Confinement Sites Grant Program. The views and conclusions contained in this document are those of the authors and should not be interpreted as representing the opinions or policies of the U.S. Government. Mention of trade names or commercial products does not constitute their endorsement by the U.S. Government.
