What is race and racism ?
Race or Racism involves blood. Blood creates respect and loyalty – loyalty and respect for father and mother from whom we have our blood. When further down the line of our grandfathers and great-grandfathers the family has gotten a common feature, expression, color and character, the living descendants’ consciousness of this character, color and feature grows. Culture adds effects to the specificity of the family, the clan, the race. Culture and blood are symbiotic. Such way our humanity has developed diversity in order to give us all challenges, variety of communication, richness of comparisons, and ultimately meaning to us all. Our differences express our possibilities, deepen our consciousness, add beauty to our features and trust in our capacities. With differences of color, differences of character are gained. Our capacities of loyalty and tolerance are developed through challenges. This is why modern plutocrats or oligarchs have to destroy racism or blood loyalty, in order to est
How do stereotypes affect viewpoints? How did racism play a role in shaping countries actions during WW II? What is propaganda? How was propaganda used to motivate the home front? How was propaganda used to create images of the enemy as dehumanized? Looking at media from today, what are the representations of the Japanese and Americans in historical films from both countries? How do we fight the problem of racism and stereotypes? Grade level(s): 8 12 Subject(s): social studies Time/Class period(s) required: two three weeks Materials needed: Map of the Pacific. Propaganda from the time period (film, posters, speeches, newspapers, music), Recent historic films representing the conflict in the Pacific. Objectives/Goals: Students will: Examine and interpret primary documents. Read actively and take notes while reading. Think critically about the issue of race. Make connections between current issues and history. Organize primary documents and supporting evidence to support a thesis in a pa
