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Critical Race Theory Week 3 | Paula Norato 7/30/2020
What is your prior experience with CRT? What experiences in your life have shaped your relationships to the course topic? How do your various identities intersect and inform your relationship to CRT?
Comment your thoughts below this blog to start a discussion!
Let's get into week 3 of going through Professor Keene's Introduction to Critical Race Theory. You had a bit of homework at the end of the last post, did you take the implicit bias tests?
Take two Harvard Implicit Assumption Tests (IAT):
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html (“Race IAT” and “Native IAT”)....
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Comment your thoughts below this blog to start a discussion!
Let's get into week 3 of going through Professor Keene's Introduction to Critical Race Theory. You had a bit of homework at the end of the last post, did you take the implicit bias tests?
Take two Harvard Implicit Assumption Tests (IAT):
https://implicit.harvard.edu/implicit/takeatest.html (“Race IAT” and “Native IAT”)....
Read More>
The "Unknown" Underground Railroad | Eduardo Abreu 7/28/2020
When I learned about the Underground Railroad during my US History classes in high school it was about the pathway north towards Canada with key figures like Harriet Tubman, Isaac Hopper, and John Brown. From what I’ve noticed, this lesson has been consistent across the entire country.
However, my mind was blown away when I recently found out that there was another trail that led slaves south towards Mexico in their journey towards freedom.
Unsurprisingly, countries like Mexico were years ahead of the US with human and civil rights especially when it came to issues like slavery. In Mexico, this step in the right direction came about with the leadership of individuals like Vicente Guerrero...
Read More>
However, my mind was blown away when I recently found out that there was another trail that led slaves south towards Mexico in their journey towards freedom.
Unsurprisingly, countries like Mexico were years ahead of the US with human and civil rights especially when it came to issues like slavery. In Mexico, this step in the right direction came about with the leadership of individuals like Vicente Guerrero...
Read More>