Examining Privilege and Oppression
This discussion-based activity guides students in understanding privilege and oppression as concepts.
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Perfectly Logical Explanations
This activity guide is intended to serve as an example of how to engage with “perfectly logical explanations” or dominant narratives raised in classroom discussion.
Dominant Narratives
Students will discuss dominant narratives – explanations or stories told in service of the dominant social group’s interests and ideologies.
Doing One’s Own Personal Work on Privilege and Oppression
The guide offers reflective questions for instructors to explore and suggestions for appropriate ways and forums to work through the personal challenge of anti-oppressive work.
Responding to Common Dialogue Blockers
This resource is designed to help instructors manage the challenges of difficult classroom dialogue, specifically the way some students block or divert dialogue as a defensive response to perspectives they find uncomfortable or challenging.
Dialogue Blocker Activity
This activity is designed to help students recognize common dialogue blockers, why people use them, and to become more aware of how they inhibit important conversations.
An Instructor’s Guide to Understanding Privilege
The following content and linked resources have been curated as a primer for instructors to better understand and attend to the ways privilege operates in the classroom.
Invisible Knapsacks
This activity uses independent reflection and small-group discussion to guide students in understanding white privilege as a concept and recognizing the ways their relationship to whiteness benefits or disadvantages them and impacts daily life.
