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The Racial and Cultural Identities –
MSAN Seminar in the
Cambridge Public Schools
Edward Byrne
@efbyrneiv
[email protected]
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Who’s here? What would you like to know?
History of the class
Syllabus – major components, units, req’s
Unit 1: Getting to Know Each Other &
Achievement Gaps
Unit 2: Identity
Unit 3: Culture
Unit 4: Race
Unit 5: Systems & Special Topics
Challenges and Opportunities with the Course
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Understand how your own values and attitudes
about people and the world formed and how they
affect your thinking and behavior
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Present day social inequalities have historical roots
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Learning about social inequalities compels us to take
action.
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Reading assignments (2-3x/ week)
Weekly Essays
Daily discussions
Friday Free Write
Projects / presentations
2nd Quarter Action Project?
Head – Heart - Hand
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Head: Wondering and
learning about what
we observe
Heart: Understanding
and showing empathy
for others’ experiences
Hand: With fire in the
heart for change, DO
something to make it
better
 Stay
critical, not cynical
 Do the readings
 Be open to a change of mind
and heart.
 Be prepared to be challenged
by each other
“course outline and expectations” in the GoogleDrive folder
> Key Readings
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Icebreaker / Teambuilder every day for 2-3
weeks
Binder clip, Mix it up, 5 things, sneeches…
 A Letter to Me
 Conocimiento
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Looking at our own achievement data
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Reflection
Boykin and Noguera
What are some possible reasons for the gaps we see?
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Tatum: Who am I?
Looking Glass Self
“I am..” and Circles of Multi-dimensional self
The Other – dominance/subordinance
The Other Wes Moore
Stereotypes (stereotype threat)
Norm / advantaged
“otherness”
Race
White
Of Color
Gender
Male
Cis-gender
Female
Transgender
Religion
Christian (protestant)
Muslim, Jewish,
Buddhist, Hindu,
Catholic, Atheist
Age
Middle age
Youth, senior citizen
Sexual Orientation
Straight / heterosexual
Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual
Wealth / Class
Wealthy
Poor, working class
Ability
Able-bodied
Disabled (physical,
cognitive, psychological)
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3 step process:
 First: We imagine how we
appear to others
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Second: Based on others’
reactions to us, we try to figure
out if other people see us the
way we see ourselves
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Third: We use our perceptions
of how other people see us, to
develop feelings about
ourselves (e.g. self esteem)
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Who am I? The answer depends in large part on who
the world says I am. (Tatum p.18)
Who do my parents say I am? Who do my peers say I
am? What message is reflected back to me from my
teachers? My neighbors? Store clerks? (18)
Do I see myself in the cultural images around me (TV,
magazines, community leaders)? Or am I left out of the
picture all together?
Other people are the mirror in which
we see ourselves
Culture Iceberg
Culture Chest
American of the Year
Race, Ethnicity, Nationality – social construction
Above water:
Explicit culture
Below water:
Implicit culture
Layer
Layer examples
Visibility
Outer
Language, symbols, and artifacts
(food, music, clothing)
Always visible
Middle
Customs, practices, interactions
(rites of passage, table manners,
greetings)
Sometimes visible,
sometimes just
understood
Inner
Shared values, norms, beliefs,
and expectations
(fairness, fears, mysticism,
friendship, relations with family)
Not visible
Typically just
understood. “ways of
being”
Images of Race
Historical Perspectives: Race: Power of Illusion
Race, ethnicity, and nationality
Racial Identity Development
-Stereotypes,
Prejudice, Discrimination
-4 Is of Oppression
-American Myths
-Pathways of Causality (Wes Moore, City of Lawrence)
Systemic
Nonprofits
Cultural
Within You
Between
Individuals
Government
Structural
Business
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Criminal Justice: policing, Michelle Alexander
and The New Jim Crow, School to Prison
Pipeline
Gender / Sexuality / Sexual Orientation – How
race makes gender and gender makes race
Socioeconomic status / class / poverty –
intersectionality
Environmental justice – Flint, MI, asthma
What is Social Justice – Michael Sandel &
Justice, Affirmative Action, funding social
programs
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Picking a topic related to the course
Poster / slide presentations
Policy briefs
Challenges of moving to action
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Honors / CP
Diversity of the class
Creating the culture of the class to support the
discussions
Sequence and pace