Personal+Racial+Identity

The students go through a series of prompts to awake or deepen their sense of a racial conciousness:  1. How do I identify racially?  2. When are moments when I am most aware of my own race? Why or why not?  3. When are moments when I am least aware of my own race? Why or why not?  4. When are moments that I am aware of racial differences of other? Why or why not?  5. How does my race affect the way that I think about school? Why or why not?  6. As you were answering these questions, what emotions surfaced for you?  7. What strategies do you have for dealing with these emotions?  8. What is your earliest memory of race? How/when did you learn about the concept of race?  9. What is good about talking about race?  10. What is challenging about talking about race?

After going through these prompts, the students read two different pieces on racial identity - one from a Black writer and one from a White writer.