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Unpacking Stereotypes: Cereal Box

Civic Character & Critical Consciousness in Advisory

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Agenda

  • Greeting
  • Reading
  • Initiative
  • Debrief

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Agenda

  • Greeting
  • Reading
  • Initiative
  • Debrief

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Greeting

What is a good piece of advice someone has given you?

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Agenda

  • Greeting and Check-in
  • Reading
  • Initiative
  • Debrief

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What is a stereotype?

  • An unfair or untrue belief about people who belong to a particular group or share a particular characteristic

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Reading

  • “Whenever we’re in a situation where a bad stereotype about one of our identities could be applied– such as being old, poor, rich, or female– we know it. And this means that it follows members of that stereotyped group into situations like a balloon over their heads.”

–Claude Steele

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What does this quotation get you thinking about?

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Agenda

  • Greeting
  • Reading
  • Initiative
  • Debrief

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What do you notice in this Corn Pops ad?

First viewed in Bell, W., & Schatz, K. (2022). Do the work: An antiracist activity handbook. Workman Publishing.

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Detect, Reflect, Reject

  • Detect
    • What is the problem here?

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  • Reflect
    • Why is this stereotype showing up here? Who is it harming?

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  • Reject
    • What can we do to challenge this problematic stereotype?

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--Devine, 2021

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Agenda

  • Greeting
  • Reading
  • Initiative
  • Debrief

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Debrief

  • What did you like about today’s lesson?
  • Did you learn anything new about yourself or anyone else?
  • What could make it better?

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