Stereotyping
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"Three Generations of Imbeciles"? Critics of forced sterilization laws believed that they violated rights guaranteed in the U.S. Constitution. In 1924, eugenicists and their supporters decided to find out if the laws were constitutional. To do so, they needed someone who could challenge the law in the courts. They chose Carrie Buck of Virginia. At the age of 17 years old, she was pregnant and unmarried. Her mother, Emma, an inmate at the Lynchburg Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded, was rumored to have been a prostitute. |
Publication Readings | January 3, 2012 |
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A Class Divided 60 minutes A Class Divided is an expanded version of Eye of the Storm. In this documentary, Jane Elliott meets with her class to talk about the classroom experiment about discrimination she performed 15 years earlier and the effects it had on their lives. In addition, Jane Elliott is seen giving this lesson to employees of the Iowa prison system. |
Library Resource | December 15, 2009 |
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A Discussion with Elie Wiesel 30 minutes, color View The "In" Group |
Library Resource | December 15, 2009 |
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A Flight Is Diverted by a Prayer Seen as Ominous Last week a flight attendant on a US Airways Express Flight traveling from La Guardia to Kentucky alerted the cockpit of a suspicious passenger. |
Facing Today | January 25, 2010 |
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Beyond Classification Rod Serling used fiction to explore the negative consequences of the labels we attach to ourselves and others. For many Americans, that kind of discrimination is a part of their daily life. Stereotyping obscures the reality of who they are and what they may become. |
Publication Readings | January 3, 2012 |
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Beyond Hate 90 minutes, color Bill Moyers examines the historical, philosophical and psychological roots of hatred. |
Library Resource | December 15, 2009 |
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Boston Radio Talk Show Host Suspended for his Comments about Mexicans
According to the Boston Globe, "Jay Severin, the fiery right
wing talk show host on Boston's WTKK-FM radio station, was suspended yesterday
after calling Mexican immigrants "criminaliens,"
"primitives," "leeches," and exporters of "women with
mustaches and VD," among other incendiary comments. |
Facing Today | May 5, 2009 |
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Coming Out in Middle School Benoit Denizet-Lewis reports in his New York Times Magazine article “Coming Out in Middle School” that more and more middle-school students are openly gay. “Just how they’re faring in a world that wasn’t expecting them – and that isn’t so sure a 12-year-old can know if he’s gay – is a complicated question that defies simple geographical explanations,” Denizet-Lewis writes. |
Facing Today | September 30, 2009 |
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Community Reaches Out to Local Islamic Center After Hate Crime On February 10th, members of the Al-Farooq Islamic Center in South Nashville arrived for their morning prayers only to find that their building had been vandalized. |
Facing Today | February 24, 2010 |
| Decision-Making in Times of Injustice Lesson 4 | Lesson Plan | March 26, 2009 |
