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Introduction to

Racism in the U.S.

High Intermediate ESOL Lesson Slides

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A note to teachers: These slides were created by Riva Pearson for The Change Agent at World Education. Please adapt and edit as you wish. If you have Gmail, you can make a copy. Or you can download these slides into your own presentation software. Please consider subscribing to The Change Agent ($30 per teacher per year, and you can share your online access with all your students). You’ll get access to all our back issues and all our leveled online audio.

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https://changeagent.nelrc.org/

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Table of Contents

Reading Jigsaw: Slides 2-7

Fighting Against Racism: Slides 16-21

Reading (Growing Up with Racism): Slide 15

Vocabulary: Interpersonal, Institutional, Internalized Racism: Slides 8-14

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Group 1 Vocabulary

Muslim

Islam

Koran

Terrorist

Fingerprinted

Helpless

Humiliation

Border

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https://changeagent.nelrc.org/issues/issue-42/a-muslim-crossing-the-border/

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Group 2 Vocabulary

Speak up

Raise our voices

Sympathy

Threatening manner

Allegedly

Discriminate

Unite

Black Lives Matter movement

https://changeagent.nelrc.org/latinos-police-violence

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Group 3 Vocabulary

Institution/institutional

Tangled

Up to no good

Cuffs

Burglary

Hoodie

Acquitted

Warrant

Cooperate

Racial profiling

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https://changeagent.nelrc.org/issues/issue-42/institutional-racism/

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In your groups...

  1. Discuss the vocabulary. Use a dictionary or your phone to help you.
  2. Answer: What is the main idea of your article?

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With one person from each group...

  1. Tell your new group about your article. *Do not read your article to your group. Put it in your own words!
  2. How are the experiences of Abukar, Nancy, and Glenn the same?
  3. How are their experiences different?

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INTERPERSONAL

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INTER = between

PERSONAL = people

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INSTITUTIONAL

Institution (noun) = an organized group or place that has special power in society like a school, church, or the government.

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Institutional (adj) = organized in an institution.

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INTERNALIZED

Internal (adj) = inside

To internalize (verb) = to incorporate something inside you

Internalized (adj) = when something is incorporated inside you

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Example: When someone tells you that you are not smart, you might internalize this idea and start to believe it, even if it is not true.

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Institutional Racism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4M-5V8uUtKA

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Institutional Racism

  1. What are some of the “built-in barriers” that keep people from reaching their potential?
  2. Marley says that institutional racism is all around us, even though we can’t always see it. Can you think of other examples of institutional racism? At work, at school, in your neighborhood?

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/magazine/2019/11/25/visualizing-racism-photo-essay/?arc404=true

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  1. Look at the Washington Post’s Visualizing Racism photo essay
  2. Scroll down to “Chokehold” by Jahi Chikwendiu
  3. Talk about:
    1. What do you see?
    2. What do you think the person is feeling?
    3. How do you feel when you look at the pictures?
    4. How do you think these pictures show internalized racism.

Internalized Racism

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Where do you see examples of institutional, interpersonal, internalized racism?

https://changeagent.nelrc.org/growing-up-with-racism/

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Fighting Against Racism

Look at the pictures on the next two slides and read the posters.

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  1. What do you see?
  2. How do you feel when you read these ideas?
  3. How can the ideas on the posters help people to resist racism?

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Boston, June 2020

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Boston, June 2020

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Fighting Against Racism

Put the words or phrases from the signs in the box they fit in best.

Institutional

Interpersonal

Internalized

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Fighting Against Racism (suggested answers)

Put the words or phrases from the signs in the box they fit in best.

Institutional

Support Black businesses

Stop the pandemic of police brutality

Interpersonal

Do not just love Black culture, love and support Black people too.

Internalized

Tell yourself: You are beautiful

Remember: We are strong. We are beautiful. We are excellent.

Do not give up

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Fighting Against Racism

What else can you do to fight against racism?

Institutional

Interpersonal

Internalized