Blog / Diversity Activities
Ted Talk on Unconscious Bias
This is a quick little Ted Talk on unconscious bias--I love Helen's examples! The whole thing made me think about the blue and black (or white and gold) dress. Of which, I still don't know how to process... Enjoy!
How Privileged Are You? Take the Quiz!
Buzzfeed created a quiz so you can check your privilege. This will make you think. If it doesn't, it should. Take the quiz (and read the comments if you're brave)
Greenwich Academy Using Diversity Beans
I love how Greenwich Academy incorporated Diversity Beans into their Unity Week! Makes my heart full to see them in action!!
Multiracial Oath of Social Responsibility
- I know that race and ethnicity are not solely defined by one’s genetic heritage;
- I refuse to confine my choices in love or loyalty to a single race;
- I make efforts to increase my knowledge of U.S. racial history;
- I know that race and ethnicity can be used as political, economic, and social tools of oppression.
- They are my relatives, friends, and mentors;
- They are people who have crossed color lines to fight discrimination;
- They are people who identified as multiracial before this choice was recognized;
- They are people who have exposed and explained the suppression of multiraciality.
- I recognize that oppression thrives on fear and ignorance;
- I seek to recognize my prejudices and change them;
- I know that it is neither helpful nor productive to argue over who is more oppressed;
- I recognize that my life interconnects with all other lives.
I will make a difference!
Copyright 2004, Maria P. P. RootFREE Resources Promoting Tolerance and Respect - Characters Unite
Bill of Rights for People of Mixed Heritage
Bill of Rights for People of Mixed Heritage
I have the right:
-not to justify my existence in this world -not to keep the races separate within me -not to be responsible for people's discomfort with my physical ambiguity -not to justify my ethnic legitimacy I have the right: -to identify myself differently than strangers expect me to identify -to identify myself differently than how my parents identify me -to identify myself differently than my brothers and sisters -to identify myself different in different situations I have the right: -to create a vocabulary to communicate about being multiracial -to change my identity over my lifetime - and more than once -to have loyalties and identify with more than one group of people -to freely choose whom I befriend and love © Maria P. P. Root, PhD, 1993, 1994 (also see "A Transracially-Adopted Child's Bill of Rights")Resource: 10 Ways to Fight Hate - A Community Response Guide


Equity and Diversity Quiz

Celebrating International Day of Peace

