Overview
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Prompt 1: After reading the article by Peggy McIntosh, White Privilege: Unpacking the Invisible Knapsack, and watching the selection from the documentary "Color of Fear":
https://www.nationalseedproject.org/key-seed-texts...
What's your reaction to McIntosh's essay and the excerpt from Color of Fear? To what extent do the views expressed reflect your own experiences? Is this type of conversation represented by the documentary useful? To what extent was the conversation affected by not including any women?
Prompt 2: After watching the TED talks on women and identity by Liza Donnelly, Caro-line Casey and Lizzie Velasquez...
https://www.ted.com/talks/liza_donnelly_drawing_on...
https://www.ted.com/talks/caroline_casey_looking_p...
How do you define who you are? What role does appearance have? Where do the rules for appearance and behavior come from? Are these rules universal? For women everywhere? Do you agree on the power of cartoons and humor?
Prompt 3: After watching the TED talk on prejudice by Paul Bloom:
https://www.ted.com/talks/paul_bloom_can_prejudice...
Do you agree that our initial judgments about people tend to be accurate? What is your take on his recommendations for overcoming "bad" prejudice? Are there other approaches that might work?