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Name: ___________________________________________________ Instructions Please watch the documentary, White Like Me: Race, Racism, & White Privilege in America,” on your own. The documentary is one hour and eight minutes long. You can access the documentary off campus via this link: https://library.umd.umich.edu/verify/fwd.php?https://umdumich.kanopy.com/video/white-me-0

As you watch the documentary, White Like Me: Race, Racism, & White Privilege in America, please connect what you are seeing to the conceptual information you are learning in class. These questions are meant to help guide your learning. If you would like to earn participation points, you can turn this completed, typed worksheet in on April 9 AND upload it to Canvas for consideration. Questions 1. How is the path of least resistance rejected in this documentary?

2. How does systemic oppression/structural advantage emerge? In what contexts (e.g., housing, loans, mortgages, student loans, assistance programs)? Who benefits? Who is excluded?

3. What is the social psychological benefits of privilege? And how might this intersect with other social identities (e.g., race, gender, social class, sexuality, religion, ethnicity)?

White Like Me: Race, Racism & White Privilege in America

4. In what ways does implicit and explicit racism emerge in our history (as it appears in the documentary)?

5. How does implicit racism intersect with system justification, and specifically the ideology of individualism and equal opportunity?

6. How do implicit prejudice, discrimination, and oppression intersect? Think about health, education, criminal justice system, job/hiring practices.

7. How does colorblind logic and “reverse discrimination” reinforce our national/cultural ideologies? Who benefits? For those who benefit, think about how entitlement is related and yet invisible. Who does not benefit?

White Like Me: Race, Racism & White Privilege in America

Big conceptual questions to grapple with, if you want (i.e., this section is optional): Are equity and fairness the same?

How do cultural arguments of “us versus them” hold all of us down?

How do we work together? What are our responsibilities? What are you going to do to facilitate this?...