Briefly describe how your African American ethnic identity influences your lifestyle and overall well-being. Highlight the ways in which specific sociocultural standards, values and norms relevant to your ethnic identity have shaped your behavior, interpersonal/family dynamics, and the experience of self and other people. Identify the extent to which you adhere to or feel conflicted about the values and norms traditional to the ethnic group you identify with. Finally, reflect on your ethnic identity vis-a-vis the multiculturalism and pluralism in contemporary US society.
Then view the documentary: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1mcCLm_LwpE
Answer the following questions
How was the exercise that Elliott designed a response to the children’s question, “Why would anyone want to murder Martin Luther King?” Did the film provide an answer to the question? Can you answer the question?
What features did Elliott ascribe to the superior and inferior groups and how did those characteristics reflect stereotypes?
In the prison seminar, one of the white women asserts that all people face some kind of discrimination. Another woman challenges her, claiming that whites can’t really know what it’s like to face discrimination every minute of every day. What do you think?