The Urgency of Intersectionality by Kimberlé Crenshaw
In this 2016 TED Talk, Kimberlé Crenshaw, the scholar who coined the term intersectionality, speaks passionately about the idea of intersesctionality in relation to violence against Black women.
In this 2016 TED Talk, Kimberlé Crenshaw, the scholar who coined the term intersectionality, speaks passionately about the idea of intersesctionality in relation to violence against Black women.
A catalog of education films spanning across subject areas organized by grade level, including standards and resources for educators and students. Online: https://ca.pbslearningmedia.org/
Roots of racial disparities are seen through a new lens in this film that explores the origins of housing segregation in the Minneapolis area. But the story also illustrates how African-American families and leaders resisted this insidious practice, and how Black people built community — within and despite — the red lines that these restrictive…
Digital exhibit exploring queer Asian Pacific Islander identity Online: http://smithsonianapa.org/day-queer-life/
A Pulitzer-prize winning project focused on the history of slavery. Includes a few lesson plans and other curricular resources, and some are tied fairly closely to New York Times articles. Online: https://pulitzercenter.org/lesson-plan-grouping/1619-project-curriculum
“Building on the ten themes of the National Council for the Social Studies’ national curriculum standards, the NMAI’s Essential Understandings reveal key concepts about the rich and diverse cultures, histories, and contemporary lives of Native Peoples. These concepts reflect a multitude of untold stories about American Indians that can deepen and expand your teaching of…
Short film about an undocumented student at UCLA and the DREAM Act. Originally done through the Armed with a Camera fellowship through Visual Communications in Little Tokyo, LA. May 2007. Online: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jI7J2b3t4WU&fbclid=IwAR1SafOoQtpDnjFv5wODPj2PxEzXV4xVQnlaDbmrXRFqgO3oqc7rA_A6yBU