Flip Side
Human Awareness
Description:
Split everybody up into groups of two (if possible) or three, and make sure that
everybody is with a person of different ethnicity (i.e. white with Black/African
American).
Have each each person in the group describe what their day would be like if they were the
other person in the group. For instance, a white person explains what his/her day would be
like as an African American, and then an African American explains what his/her day would
be like as a white person. Use specific examples that each group must go through.
For example, African Americans describe how they perceive it is to be white and in a
required African American history class, or to have your friends make racist jokes. On the
same token, white people describe how they percieve it is to be African American and be in
a class where he/she is the only African American or to how they percieve it is to
the target of a racist situation.
Next, have each person say what the other person got right, and what the other person was
incorrect about. Instructions/Things Needed:
- At least two facilitators. Discussion can sometimes get heated
- A large room
- An open mind
Other Considerations:
This program works for many areas oppression that are
visible, such as racism, sexiam, and ableism.
Joe S.
School: Wright State University
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