This afternoon's discussion kept bringing me back to the feelings I had in the Peace Corps when I was the only white and only female teacher in my school. There were so many complicated emotions to address - stereotypes, gender roles, religious and cultural differences, discrimination - I felt like these issues came from all sides and they were so very hard to process.
Tuesday, July 5, 2011
Social Justice talk
I really, really liked this morning's microtheme activity on social justice. One thing I want to share (that I wrote on my sticky note) is that I highly recommend the movie, "Rabbit Proof Fence," the true story about a time period in Australian history very people know about. Mixed race children were forcefully taken from their Aboriginal mothers to be trained in finishing schools and sent to white homes to be domestic servants. They never saw their mothers again. The government's eventual goal was to "breed out" the Aboriginal blood with the goal of turning Australia completely white over several generations. Please watch it if you get a chance (and Peter Gabriel does the soundtrack).
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