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Topic Exploration Resources
Directions: This page contains links to research and articles about many topics: race, gender, LGBTQ issues, class, ethnicity, to how people with different social identities experience current events in the United States differently. Some of these resources are designed for kids your age and others were written for adults. This means some of them might be harder to understand. I've included a link to my favorite online dictionary here to help you understand any words that confuse you, as well as a link to Simple Wikipedia to learn more about these topics. My favorite sources are marked with a star (✯) symbol.
You should also use me as a guide as you read these articles, asking me questions to help you understand what you read. Discussing these articles with your classmates will also help you. Feel free to use headphones to watch videos on the following articles and to click on links to read other articles linked in your article. If you do not have headphones, please mute your volume before clicking on any of the links below, many of which have ads. As you research here, please fill out your Project Identity Topic Exploration Note Catcher.
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Merriam-Webster Dictionary
Simple Wikipedia
Race & Ethnicity
BIG List of Systemic Racism Examples (click on the links in the list to read about some of the examples of how race affects housing, finances, healthcare, education, etc.) ✯
Understanding Race
What Is Black Lives Matter?
NYT Learning Network Q&A on race with students
The Marionette Online: How Race Affects Daily Life
PBS: Me, Myself, and My Race
PBS: Timeline of Race
PBS: Interview with an Anthropologist About the History of Race
Microaggressions Chart
White People: A Documentary
White Kids Get Medicated, Black Kids Get Suspended ✯
The Last Word on That Word
(Don't) Guess My Race
Conditions on Indian reservations today ✯
Football game compared to Trail of Tears
Black family asked to leave Wild Wing Cafe
An article about one teen examining how others see her racial and national identities
Boy bullied for race
NC Police pepper spray black teenager in his own home ✯
Tulsa school sends student home over hairstyle
Ten Myths About Immigration
Issue Overview: Immigration reform
Why don't unauthorized immigrants become citizens? They can't. ✯
DACA: Some young immigrants face education hurdle to stay in U.S.
Latino Immigration to the United States: Economic Factors
PBS Quiz: Test Your Knowledge on Immigration
Central American children heading to U.S. to escape danger
Mexican Immigration History: Longer, more Complex than U.S.-Mexico border
States, cities making their own English-only rules
Video Shows MAGA-Clad Teenagers Harassing, Mocking Native American Vietnam Vet
In Tamir Rice Case, Many Errors by Cleveland Police, Then a Fatal One
Muslim teen Ahmed Mohamed creates clock, shows teachers, gets arrested
Starbucks, LA Fitness and the long, racist history of America’s loitering laws
They Can't Be Here For Us: Two Black Men Arrested at Starbucks Tell Their Story for the First Time
A video of black men being arrested at Starbucks. Three very different reactions.
The Fight For Native Voices To Be Heard
"The History of White People": What it means to be white
Gender
Resources about Femininity
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Resources about Masculinity
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Videos
Articles
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Videos
Articles
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Other LGBTQ Issues
Teenager's skirt set on fire on bus
Classmates' response
School's reaction to boy bullied for wearing pink
A little boy who loves pink
My former students' reaction to the previous article
Boy suspended for wearing purse
Pennsylvania High School Students Create an Anti-Gay Day
What High School Is Like for Transgender Students ✯
Virginia school board violated rights of transgender teen, judge rules
US Supreme Court allows Trump military transgender ban
Oklahoma Passes Adoption Law That LGBT Groups Call Discriminatory
National report shows Idaho schools "unsafe" for LGBTQ students
New survey: Fl middle and HS schools “not safe” for most LGBTQ students
High school could have been hell for my transgender son. Don't make it hell for the next kid.
Ableism
What it actually feels like to stutter
Why the Heck are You So Fat?
The Problem With Fat Jokes
Albino Teen Fights Bullies with Rap Lyrics
People of Color with Albinism Ask: Where Do I Belong?
Why People With Disabilities Want Bans On Plastic Straws To Be More Flexible ✯
11-Year-Old With Autism Arrested At School, DA Drops Charges
LGBT Navajos Discover Unexpected Champions: Their Grandparents
Class
Conditions on Indian reservations today ✯
Play SPENT to examine financial insecurity
The richest 1 percent now owns more of the country’s wealth than at any time in the past 50 years
If You Haven’t Been On Food Stamps, Stop Trying to Influence Government Policy (originally published on Racialicious) ✯
Food stamps for millions of Americans become pawn in shutdown fight
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