Updated BE 8/24/20
Personal Diversity Exploration
Purpose
The purpose of this assignment is to reflect
on your own experiences of race and racial
identity as a way to link to the content that
we’ve been discussing this semester. This is a
journal-type reflection paper due by the end of the semester.
Instructions
Complete a paper that addr
esses the following questions:
1.
What is your earliest memory related to
race? How old were you? What was the
situation? Do you recall any feelin
gs related to this experience?
2.
Do you recall when you learned about your
racial group? How about when you learned
that there were racial groups other than yo
ur own? How did you learn this information?
3.
How do you perceive your own race, and how is your race is perceived by others?
4.
Select a significant institution in your life
(i.e. educational, religious, media/cultural,
etc.). What have you learned from this in
stitution about race? How might this have
impacted relationships and identity?
5.
Thinking about your workplace (or educational
experience), scan your relationships with
people who have been socialized
into a different racial group than yourself. What is the
nature of these relationships? Are these re
lationships similar or different than you
experienced in your childhood? Have the ty
pes of changed over time? What do you
notice about the relationships in your life today?
Assignment is due by December 13
th
at 11:59pm CST.
Assignment Adapted From:
Thurber, A., Harbin, M.B., & Bandy, J. (2019). Teaching
Race: Pedagogy and Practice. Vanderbilt University
Center for Teaching. Retrie
ved [17 August 2020] from
https://cft.vanderbil
.
