Creator: Whitney Dow | visit site
Grade Range: 8 - 11
The Whiteness Project features a series of interviews with millennials from Dallas, Texas. The short video interviews share their understanding of their whiteness. At the end of each interview, a statistic providing context is shared to encourage the viewing audience’s self-reflection. View all of the statistics used on the site by selecting the data link at the top of the page.
In the Classroom
The Whiteness Project provides a unique and interesting resource for introducing and discussing difficult topics in the classroom, including racism, prejudice, bias, and empathy. Share this site with students and provide them time to listen to some of the conversations and the provided statistics. Encourage students to choose one statistic as a starting point for additional research. For example, one piece of data shared is the number of adults who have two or more races in their background. This provides a starting point for researching race in your community, state, or in the country. As students complete research, ask them to share their findings in a multimedia presentation using a tool like Sway, <a href="/single.cfm?id=16373">reviewed here</a>, to add graphs, charts, images, and video that support their findings.
At Home
Share this site with your teen to hear viewpoints on culture and race from young people like themselves. Think about the statistics shared at the end of each video and how they relate to you and your family as part of your discussions of the content of this website.
Tags
cultures, cross cultural understanding, character education, civil rights, racism, empathy, difficult conversations,
Subjects
Character Education, Current Events, Social Studies, Social Studies,